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ProtoInclude adds unwanted dependencies

Hello, I just replaced .NET serialization with protocol buffers in a distributed cache application and the results are really impressive. The only thing I do not like is the fact that I need to add dependencies between a base message class and its children which creates a circular dependency. Is there an alternative to tagging base class with ProtoInclude?

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Sorry, I missed this yesterday.

At the moment, no; [ProtoInclude] is the only way to support inheritance. There is an in-progress and far-from-complete version that allows you to define the relationships separately, but this is nowhere near usable at the moment. Sorry.

I don't have an ETA on it, I'm afraid.

Marc Gravell  2009-08-06 14:54:10
Thank you very much for your answer
dan ionescu  2009-08-07 13:00:38

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