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Tom
Tom

Reputation: 799

Serialize a custom class as a primitive type with protobuf-net

I am using a custom struct "PreciseTimeSpan" that consists like the regular .NET TimeSpan of a ticks value of datatype long. I want to serialize PreciseTimeSpan fields by serializing the ticks value as varint. Until now I created a private property for each PreciseTimeSpan field that performed the conversion from and to long. But this is quite inconvenient. Is it possible to serialize a custom class / struct as a primitive type?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 528

Answers (1)

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1063864

Whilst protobuf-net does support surrogate serialization types, it does not currently allow these to be mixed with primitive types. It is theoretically possible that it could do so, but: not today. If you really want, I could investigate this option.

Upvotes: 2

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