DataMember Property with Custom Get?

Question

I'm going by this tutorial and trying to figure out how to have a DataMember without an auto property. Basically I have a field is a date time in epoch format and I want the property to be a DateTime so I'm trying to do the conversion in the property's get. I'm not sure how to format this exactly.

Since Code was requested please look at the following. :

// The date looks like this in the JSON 
"someEpochDateTime": 1428785212000,

// I thought I could work around it using the following code, however
// I get a warning saying someEpochDateTime is never set.

[DataMember(Name = "someEpochDateTime")]
private long someEpochDateTime;

public DateTime test
{
get { return DateTimeConverter.FromUnixTime(someEpochDateTime); }
}

Using FromUnixTime

Here's how to do the conversion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2883576/how-do-you-convert-epoch-time-in-c. Call this code in the `DateTime` getter and setter — dbc, Apr 11 '15 at 19:25
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MMM · Answer 1 · 2015-04-12T04:05:13.417

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like this you can create datereturn property this will return date

     [DataContract]
     public class Mycontractclass
     {     
         // Apply the DataMemberAttribute to the property.
        [DataMember]
        public DateTime datereturn
        {
           get
           {
              return this.dateCreated.HasValue
                 ? this.dateCreated.Value
                 : DateTime.Now;
           }

           set { this.dateCreated = value; }
        }

        private DateTime? dateCreated = null;
    }

edited Apr 12 '15 at 04:05

answered Apr 11 '15 at 19:17

MMM

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Yes, but how do you do this as a DataMember in a DataContract is what I'm trying to figure out. – user1970794 Apr 11 '15 at 22:22
@user1970794 Add Attribute to your class and property see edit – MMM Apr 12 '15 at 04:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 12 '15 at 14:14

Apparently my last edit actually works as a solution, I just get a compiler warning for some reason.

[DataMember(Name = "someEpochDateTime")]
private long someEpochDateTime;

public DateTime test
{
    get { return DateTimeConverter.FromUnixTime(someEpochDateTime); }
}

DataMember Property with Custom Get?

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