serialization issues with inherited report items

[Martin]

Hi,
we are developing a custom report designer for end users. The designer works against the CLR API while reports are persisted as serialized trdx.

To provide our designer with additional information, we decided to extend some of the classes. While this works just fine in some cases, it breaks the serialization in others.

Working example:

public class ExtendedColumn : TableBodyColumn

{

  public string Name { get; set; }
}


Broken example:


public class ExtendedTable : Table
{
  public int HeaderHeight { get; set; }
}

While the additional property is in fact being serialized, some parts of the base class are not. In this case the table's xml node '<Corner />' remains empty and the table body's node '<Cells/>' is missing.

Is there another way to achieve the desired behavior?

Kind regards
Sebastian

[Elian]

Hello Sebastian,

The report serializer only knows how to serialize our classes and custom classes are not supported. If you need additional info, the only thing that we can suggest is for you to serialize the meta-data separately from the report. 
 
Regards,
Elian
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