Configuration section designer custom elements

Question

I'm using Configuration Section Designer (CSD) to manage my ASP.NET site services and so far I'm lovin' it. I created the section, collection and collection item (attributes only) easy. The problem is how to create 'Json' Element in the jsonWebApiService type of string. I think I need to create a custom element and converter maybe. Not sure any advice, links or ideas would be helpful. Tkanks.

Problem is View Schema https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4oqlkkf0yHDMHo0M21PZzBZeEU/edit?usp=sharing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <jsonWebApiSection xmlns="Web.JsonWebApi.Configuration">
        <services>
            <jsonWebApiService uniqueName="products" typeFullName="Company.Services.Products" typeAssembly="Services" route="/public/services/products.json">
                <json>{"Filter" :"OnSale"}</json>
            </jsonWebApiService>
        </services>
    </jsonWebApiSection>
</configuration>

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '14 at 18:10

You need to do following:

for JsonWebApiService element set property "Has Custom Child Elements" to "true"

you would also need to provide function in a separate cs file which parses that inner content:

public partial class JsonWebApiService : ConfigurationElement
{
    private bool HandleUnrecognizedElement(string elementName, 
            System.Xml.XmlReader reader)
    {
        /* parse your Json here */
        return true;
    }
}

Configuration section designer custom elements

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