[Question] Does YAX support object graph serialization about yaxlib

[sinairv]

Hi,
It does support serializing object graphs, but it doesn't preserve reference identities. So if you add a single object twice to a collection, it will be serialized twice, and when you deserialize it you'll get two distinct objects with equal properties.

[QuantumDeveloper]

Thanks.

• Does it planned to include support for preserving reference identites? As I understand its quite easy - you just need to add dictionary and add each reference object to dictionary and check if there is already such an object there.
• Also is it possible to exclude somehow from serialization properties of 3rd party type? For ex I have SharpDX.Matrix struct and I want to serialize only fields, but not properies and I cannot use attributes for that because it is not my type.
• And another question:
  does your lib support ignoring values of basic type (not only null)
  I mean If I have Boolean filed/property with value "false" which is default for .Net, I can omit serialization of this property because when class with it will be created, it will set it to false by defaulr. There is no need to store this info in file. The same for other basic primitive types.

Could you answer my questions please? I didnt find answers on them unfortunately.

[sinairv]

It's not planned. It might be easy to implement, but it's not easy to represent in XML. (actually YAXLib does similar checks to prevent serializing cyclic references and preventing a loop, e.g., when you serialize a cyclic linked list).

The 2nd one is planned.

The 3rd one is not supported, but a requested feature (conditional ignore).

[QuantumDeveloper]

Why not easy? Datacontract serializaer do this with Ref="id" for example.

Also one more question: does your lib support Windows8 apps? Also didnt find any info about this/