Re: Ravendb IReadOnlyCollection<> and private backing field

[Kijana Woodard]

- You can change _tires to a private property and it will be serialized automatically (private fields are not) and initialize in the constructor.

- You can add [Raven.Imports.Newtonsoft.Json] to the public property and it won't be serialized.

Assuming the first option won't work for you.

- You could try adding [Raven.Imports.Newtonsoft.JsonProprty] to _tires.

You could customize the contract resolver

http://ravendb.net/docs/2.0/client-api/advanced/custom-serialization

On Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:27:04 PM UTC-5, Daan Le Duc wrote:

Hi,

I have a question related to IReadOnlyCollection<> and backing fields. Say i have the following situation:

    public class Car

    {

        private ICollection<Tire> _tires = new HashSet<Tire>();

        public IReadOnlyCollection<Tire> Tires

        {

            get { return new ReadOnlyCollection<Tire>(_tires.ToList()); }

        }

        public void AddTire(Tire tire)

        {

            _tires.Add(tire);

        }

    }

What i want is to be able to use indexes on Tires field and serialize and deserialize the value from and into _tires.

With NHibernate i am able to do this by specifying the access, for example in Fluent NHibernate it will be:

HasMany(x => x.Tires).Access.CamelCaseField(Prefix.Underscore);

I have looked into JsonContractResolver but lack the knowledge to find it out.

Does some have suggestions how to tackle this situation?