I have a problem controlling how the xml serializer formats a Guid.
is there anyway to force the property of the first example to exclude the dashes, using the XmlSerialzer?
example:
public class Example{
[XmlElement]
public Guid Value {get; set;}
}
when serializing the above class i would get: (36 characters)
<Example>
<Value>3164fc09-1dc5-4629-b04c-e9cdc5e85de4</Value>
</Example>
but i want the value not to include dashes (32 characters)
<Example>
<Value>06102471381242609d0176b269120082</Value>
</Example>
normally i would not care about the difference, but in this particular case i don't have a choice as i have to follow a standard provided by a third party that includes a set of xsd's.
I know i can do something like this to solve the problem, but it is messy and i would like to avoid it:
public class Example
{
[XmlIgnore]
public Guid Value { get; set; }
[XmlElement(nameof(Value))]
public string ValueString {
get => Value.ToString("N");
set
{
if (Guid.TryParse(value, out var uuid))
Value = uuid;
else
throw new InvalidOperationException();
}
}
}
Provided xsd
the xsd provided by this company define the custom type to be a string with a range of 1 to 35 characters, but their documentation states that the value should always be a uuid version 4 with no dashes and 32 characters long.
the documentation provided only have a danish version.
See page 5 sekt 01.07.2016 UUID i EpisodeOfCareIdentifier for the specific problem.
about the standard (optional reading):
This standard is part of a message service between counties, hospitals and other independent healthcare specialists, regarding patient treatments. All in all there is quite a few software systems that have to implement this standard.
