"Rucha" wrote:

> We are using ACAServices in our project, and are passing entity classes as
> parameters to the ACAServiceMethod. We are using a private variable
> entityState to indicate whether the entity is new/updated and so on. At
> present we are not using any custom serialization in our project, we just
> decorate the entity class with “Serializable” attribute as shown below:
>
>
>
> [Serializable]
>
> public class Address
>
> {
>
> private string _street;
>
> private string _city;
>
> private entityState;
>
> public string Street
>
> {
>
> get { return _street; }
>
> set
>
> {
>
> if (_street != value)
>
> {
>
> this.entityState = “modified”;
>
> }
>
> _street = value;
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
> When this ACAServiceMethod is called, deserialization happens. Taking above
> entity as a sample, when deserialization occurs, street is null and value is
> suppose “WALL STREET”, then the if condition is satisfied and the entityState
> property always gets set to “modified”. We wish to maintain the state of the
> object as it was stored during serialization.
>
>
>
> We are aware that there is some way by which we can decorate a web service
> with certain attributes. These attributes force the ACAService to implement
> custom serialization / deserialization methods. However we are not able to
> find any documentation which gives exact implementation details.
>
> Let me elaborate a little more on our entity class design. In our case, we
> have an EntityBase class, which contains properties such as ID and so on. All
> the entities inherit from the EntityBase class. The entityState mentioned
> below is actually part of our EntityBase class.
>
> Does anyone have a sample for implementing this, or any other solution for
> this problem?