Is there a way to serialize only public fields if class has no attributes in Protobuf-net?

Question

Protobuf-net has an option to serialize public fields of the class

[ProtoContract(ImplicitFields = ImplicitFields.AllPublic)]
public class Customer
{

}

To enable ProtoBuf to work for most DTOs I had to add this attribute to each class. Is there a way to set it globally, so if class being serialized doesn't have any attributes like ProtoContract or DataContract, it will use "ImplicitFields.AllPublic" by default?

You can dom some Aspect oriented programming :-). and Inject the attribute to all public fields. — MBen

Marc Gravell Marc Gravell · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-20T08:18:34

No, that isn't currently supported. In v2, you can, however, tell it about types at runtime, via

RuntimeTypeModel.Default.Add(typeof(Customer), false).Add({fields});

but there isn't currently an option from there that accepts ImplicitFields (this is just an oversight, and will be added in a future build).

I have also had discussion with a few people about adding an event that is triggered the first time a new type is seen, that would allow you to do this by subscribing to an event. That has yet to be written, though.

Is there a way to serialize only public fields if class has no attributes in Protobuf-net?

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