Deserialisation terminates silently at element for property marked with XmlIgnoreAttribute

This is the last of my questions about deserialising legacy documents, I promise! 😉

I am finding that ExtendedXmlSerializer.Deserialize() stops processing the document if it encounters an element that corresponds to a property that is marked with XmlIgnoreAttribute. Small example below. You can see that in each case, the document is deserialised correctly, up until the first occurrence of Entity.Show (not including the override, Entity2.Show).

I think I can work around it, but maybe it is a bug? If XmlIgnoreAttribute was added to an existing member, I think it would break deserialisation of existing documents created by ExtendedXmlSerializer.

    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Runtime.Serialization;
    using System.Xml.Serialization;

    using ExtendedXmlSerializer.Configuration;
    using ExtendedXmlSerializer.ExtensionModel.Xml;

    public static class ExtendedXmlSerializerTests
    {
        public static void TerminateOnXmlIgnore()
        {
            var serializer = new ConfigurationContainer()
                .EnableImplicitTyping(typeof(Entity), typeof(Entity2))
                .Create();

            // language=XML
            const string content1 =
                @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
                <Entity>
                    <Name>Foo</Name>
	                <Show>false</Show>
                    <Children>
                        <Entity>
                            <Name>Bar</Name>
                            <Show>false</Show>
                        </Entity>
                        <Entity>
                            <Name>Jim</Name>
                            <Show>true</Show>
                        </Entity>
                    </Children>
                </Entity>";

            const string content2 =
                @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
                <Entity>
                    <Name>Foo</Name>
                    <Children>
                        <Entity>
                            <Name>Bar</Name>
                            <Show>false</Show>
                        </Entity>
                        <Entity>
                            <Name>Jim</Name>
                            <Show>true</Show>
                        </Entity>
                    </Children>
	                <Show>false</Show>
                </Entity>";

            const string content3 =
                @"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
                <Entity2>
                    <Name>Foo</Name>
                    <Children>
                        <Entity2>
                            <Name>Bar</Name>
                            <Show>false</Show>
                        </Entity2>
                        <Entity2>
                            <Name>Jim</Name>
                            <Show>true</Show>
                        </Entity2>
                    </Children>
	                <Show>false</Show>
                </Entity2>";

            // result1.Children.Count = 0
            var result1 = serializer.Deserialize<Entity>(content1);

            // result2.Children.Count = 1
            var result2 = serializer.Deserialize<Entity>(content2);

            // result3.Children.Count = 2
            var result3 = serializer.Deserialize<Entity2>(content3);
        }
    }

    public class Entity
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }

        [XmlIgnore]
        public virtual bool Show
        {
            get => true;
            set { }
        }

        public List<Entity> Children { get; } = new List<Entity>();
    }

    public class Entity2 : Entity
    {
        [DataMember]
        public override bool Show { get; set; }
    }

[StuYarrow]

Many thanks! I have the EXS project in my solution for debugging at the moment, so its easy to pull in those changes.

[Mike-E-angelo]

This has been released in the latest version which can be found here:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/ExtendedXmlSerializer/

Further details on the release can be found here:

https://github.com/ExtendedXmlSerializer/home/releases/tag/3.0.0

If you run into any problems or have further questions, please feel free to open a new issue and we’ll take a look. Thank you for improving ExtendedXmlSerializer!

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