Disable serialization for specific types

[JamesTheButler]

Hi everyone!

I am serializing a class that contains a public Action field. Consider the following example:

record class Example
{
  public int Int { get; private set; }

  public Action? SomeAction;
};

public void Test()
{
  var serializer = new SerializerBuilder().Build();
  var output = serializer.Serialize(new DemoClass());
  // output:
  //  SomeAction: 
  //  Int: 0
}

SomeAction gets serialized to an empty string in yaml, which is a bit annoying but still okay. It get's fun if we actually subscribe to SomeAction when the serializer generates ~5.000 lines of yaml to describe the attached action.

Is it possible to not serialize members of a given type? I know about [YamlIgnore] but I would rather set up my serializer to ignore all members of the type Action (and possibly other types as well) in any of my serializable classes.

[EdwardCooke]

I just made this an issue.

And indeed, actions and funcs should probably be ignored. I’ll put up a new version shortly. I do like the idea of also adding an ignore type feature. That could be neat and I’ll build it with that in mind

[EdwardCooke]

Sorry it's taking so long, personal and work stuff has been taking priority. I'll try and get to this in the next week or 2. I have added an issue for this so I'm going to close the discussion.

#862