Question

I have a class that looks something like this:

public class MyClass
{
    string _value;

    public static implicit operator MyClass (string value)
    {
        return new MyClass(value);
    }

    MyClass(string value)
    {
        // Do something...
        _value = value;
    }

    public override string ToString()
    {
         // Do something...
         return _value;
    }
}

Hence, I can use the class like this:

MyClass a = "Hello!";

But in Raven DB it will just be stored like

"SomeProperty": {}

since it has no public properties. And it is quite useless.

To solve this I would make the _value private member a public property instead, like this:

public string Value { get; set; }

and Raven DB will store

"SomeProperty": { "Value": "Hello!" }

and it will be deserializable.

But I don’t want this public property. Can I somehow make Raven DB serialize and deserialize the class as was it would a string? Like:

"SomeProperty": "Hello!"

Answer 1

You can write a JsonConverter and teach RavenDB how you want to store the data.
After you write the converter, register it in the store.Conventions.CustomizeSerializer event.