Quick Tip – Using the ShouldSerializeXXX methods
Quick Tip – Using the ShouldSerializeXXX methods
Something that I 
encountered last week.
The ShouldSerialize methods
are optional methods that
you can provide for
a class property.
These methods are built as ShouldSerializePropertyName
and inside of them you can provide a check that will determine whether the
property should be serialized or not. Of course this can be achieved only in
serializable classes.
An example of use:
public string Text { get; set; }
public bool ShouldSerializeText()
{
return string.IsNullOrEmpty(Text);
}
Very helpful if I don’t what to serialize data that is not available.
For further reading - ShouldSerialize and Reset Methods.
Enjoy!