Pluggable Complex Type Serializers

Pluggable serialization lets you specify different serialization strategies of Complex Types for each available RDBMS provider, e.g:

Defaults​

//ServiceStack's JSON and JSV Format
SqliteDialect.Provider.StringSerializer = new JsvStringSerializer();       
PostgreSqlDialect.Provider.StringSerializer = new JsonStringSerializer();

//.NET's XML and JSON DataContract serializers
SqlServerDialect.Provider.StringSerializer = new DataContractSerializer();
MySqlDialect.Provider.StringSerializer = new JsonDataContractSerializer();

//.NET XmlSerializer
OracleDialect.Provider.StringSerializer = new XmlSerializableSerializer();

You can also provide a custom serialization strategy by implementing IStringSerializer.

By default, all dialects use the existing JsvStringSerializer, except for PostgreSQL which due to its built-in support for JSON, uses the JSON format by default.

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