I am trying to use the XMLSerializer with a castle active record class which looks like the following:
[ActiveRecord("Model")]
public class DataModel : ActiveRecordBase
{
private IList<Document> documents;
[XmlArray("Documents")]
public virtual IList<Document> Documents
{
get { return documents; }
set
{
documents = value;
}
}
}
However, the XMLSerializer runs into trouble because of the IList interface. (Raises exception: Cannot serialize member 'DataModel.Documents' of type 'System.Collections.Generic.IList`1....)
I read elsewhere that this is a limitation in the XMLSerializer and the recommended workaround is to declare it as a List<T>
interface instead.
Therefore I tried changing the IList<Document>
to List<Document>
.
This causes ActiveRecord to raise an Exception:
Type of property DataModel.Documents must be an interface (IList, ISet, IDictionary or their generic counter parts). You cannot use ArrayList or List as the property type.
So, the question is: How do you use the XMLSerializer with a Castle ActiveRecord containing an IList member?