Questions about Custom Serialization

[cd-zhang2020]

Hello，Is it possible to add attributes to specified fields to implement a custom serialization and deserialization method?

For example Newtonsoft.Json

[JsonConverter(typeof(CustomConverter))]

var serializer = new SerializerBuilder() .WithTypeConverter(new CustomConverter()) .Build();

I use the above code to customize the serialization, but this is a global method

[EdwardCooke]

Not that I’m aware of. You’d need to have multiple builders to do different type converters like your asking about.

[cd-zhang2020]

@EdwardCooke Thank you for your answer，The functionality I want to implement cannot be handled with different types converters。

For example

serverConnector:
   id: server1
   addresses:
     - 127.0.0.1:8091
   protocol: grpc
   connectTimeout: 500ms
   messageTimeout: 5s
   connectionIdleTimeout: 60s
   serverSwitchInterval: 10m
   reconnectInterval: 500ms

Deserialize the string 500ms into the number 500, and deserialize the string 5s into the number 5000，I can't convert all strings to numbers

[EdwardCooke]

I’ll work on adding this feature.

[EdwardCooke]

You can now specify a custom type converter on the property using the YamlConverter attribute. Be sure to register the converter with the serializer builder so it's used. In the AcceptsType method, just return false.

Here's the tests that show how to do it.

https://github.com/aaubry/YamlDotNet/blob/master/YamlDotNet.Test/Serialization/TypeConverterAttributeTests.cs