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    <p>As we know Silverlight does not allow private reflection. Still, I have a public property with a private setter, which I need to be able to serialize (no problem here) and deserialize (bummer).</p> <p>I know that nothing in the world would make protobuf-net write to this property in Silverlight, this must be done from within the client type (or assembly, if the property is made internal).</p> <p>Is there a scheme in place in protobuf-net for Silverlight, which makes it possible? I could make the type implement some specialized protobuf-net interface (like IProtoSerializable, for instance).</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p> <p>I can propose a scheme like that:</p> <pre><code>[ProtoMember(N, SetterMethod = "DeserializePropValue")] public string property Prop { get { return m_prop; } private set { m_prop = value; } } public void DeserializePropValue(ProtoValue&lt;string&gt; value) { m_prop = value.Value; } </code></pre> <p>Where the type ProtoValue is public, but its constructors are internal, so that only protobuf-net assembly can create instances of that type. And of course, protobuf-net will not expose any public API to create ProtoValue objects.</p> <p>This scheme can be supported for Silverlight platform only, other platforms will just invoke the private setter.</p> <p>What do you think?</p> <p><strong>EDIT2</strong></p> <p>I wish to note that surely one can still obtain a reference to an arbitrary PropValue&lt;T&gt; instance, but this will not be accidentally and these are the accidental overwrites of the property, that I wish to eliminate. Plus, I want to keep the setter non public, so that it does not surface in various reflection based binding mechanisms used in UI.</p> <p><strong>EDIT3</strong></p> <p>The PropValue&lt;T&gt; instances can be made unsuitable for storage, meaning after the method DeserializePropValue returns, the respective PropValue instance is invalidated. This leaves only one way to abuse it, like so:</p> <pre><code>[ProtoContract] public class Abusee { [ProtoMember(1, SetterMethod = "DeserializePropValue")] public string property Prop { get; private set; } public void DeserializePropValue(ProtoValue&lt;string&gt; value) { m_prop = value.Value; } } [ProtoContract] public class Abuser { private Abusee m_abusee; public Abuser(Abusee abusee, string newPropValue) { m_abusee = abusee; Dummy = newPropValue; Serializer.DeepClone(this); } [ProtoMember(1, SetterMethod = "DeserializeDummyValue")] public string property Dummy { get; private set; } public void DeserializeDummyValue(ProtoValue&lt;string&gt; value) { m_abusee.DeserializePropValue(value); } } </code></pre> <p>Quite a lot of effort to happen by accident. As to intentional abuse - there is no regression here. One can always serialize an object, manipulate the binary serialization data and then deserialize it back. The regression is only in the ease of abuse. However, my goal is to:</p> <ul> <li>Prevent mistakes by accident</li> <li>Keep the setter non public</li> <li>Avoid the maintenance nightmare associated with surrogates.</li> </ul>
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    1. COI'm still reading the edits, but re the reflection/binding APIs - just add `[ReadOnly(true)]` (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.readonlyattribute(v=VS.95).aspx)
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    2. COI haven't tried the code, but I wonder if just having a *method* (rather than a property) for setting the value gets us sufficiently there. i.e. `[Obsolete("Use this and I kill you")] public void SetProp(string value) {...}` (perhaps also with something to tell protobuf-net to use this method, but it could also be pattern-based)
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    3. COAbsolutely, I agree. Having a shadow setter method is all I want.
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