Aliase for type parameters

I use my xml file as configuration file for the end user. It would be great if I could specify aliases for types. So that the user could do sth like

        <AlbedoColor type="Color">
          <R>156</R>
          <G>208</G>
          <B>84</B>
          <A>255</A>
        </AlbedoColor>

Instead of

        <AlbedoColor type="OpenTK.Graphics.Color4">
          <R>156</R>
          <G>208</G>
          <B>84</B>
          <A>255</A>
        </AlbedoColor>

[WojciechNagorski]

Version 1.5.0 supports XmlRootAttribute and XmlElementAttribute. In these attributes you can change name.

XmlElement attribute

	public class TestClassWithXmlElementAttribute
	{
		[XmlElement(ElementName = "Identifier")]
		public int Id { get; set; }
	}

Xml will be look like:

<TestClassWithXmlElementAttribute type=""ExtendedXmlSerialization.Test.TestObject.TestClassWithXmlElementAttribute"">
  <Identifier>123</Identifier>
</TestClassWithXmlElementAttribute>

And XmlRoot attribute:

	[XmlRoot(ElementName = "TestClass")]
	public class TestClassWithXmlRootAttribute
	{
		public int Id { get; set; }
	}

Xml will be look like:

<TestClass type=""ExtendedXmlSerialization.Test.TestObject.TestClassWithXmlRootAttribute"">
  <Id>123</Id>
</TestClass>

Currently in v2, these xmls will look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TestClassWithXmlElementAttribute xmlns="clr-namespace:ExtendedXmlSerialization.Test.TestObject;assembly=ExtendedXmlSerializerTest">
	<Identifier>123</Identifier>
</TestClassWithXmlElementAttribute>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TestClass xmlns="clr-namespace:ExtendedXmlSerialization.Test.TestObject;assembly=ExtendedXmlSerializerTest">
	<Id>123</Id>
</TestClass>

XmlElementAttribute has counterpart in configuration:

cfg => cfg.ConfigureType<TestClassWithXmlElementAttribute>()
					   .Property(p => p.Id).Name("Identifier")

XmlRoot attribute doesn’t have counterpart in configuration. @Mike-EEE Do you think (like me) that it is the same function. If yes we should add cfg.ConfigType<Color4>().Name("Color"); instead of cfg.ConfigType<Color4>().Alias("Color");

[michidk]

Haha, great 😆 🎉