Custom Anchor Names During Serilialize?

[BBoldenow-Alt]

Is there a way to customize the name of an anchor during serialization? I can easily output a custom AnchorAlias using a type converter (e.g. "*custom_anchor_name"), but not the anchor for the originating object (e.g. "&custom_anchor_name"). None of the ways I've come up with of doing it seem to output it properly, and I was hoping to have names that were easier to reference than the default generated ones.

[Nidhi1819]

I am having the same issue and looking for a resolution. Did you find any way to get this done.

[BBoldenow-Alt]

No, I wrote my own serializer using a TypeConverter, but when I emitted a different anchor name, it would re-serialize the entire object with a default anchor name when serializing an object with a reference to that original object.

So it would look like this (or something very similar - this is off the top of my head):

- &my_instance !CustomClassOne
  InstanceName: my_instance
- !CustomClassTwo
  Context: &o0 !CustomClassOne
      InstanceName: my_instance
  ParameterName: some_value
- !CustomClassTwo
  Context: *o0
  ParameterName: some_value

My guess is I'm going to have to customize this library to do it myself, but it hasn't been a high enough priority to this point...I'll get to it eventually.

[Nidhi1819]

Thanks @BBoldenow-Alt , hope there was better way to do this rather than customizing the library. I tried implementing IYamlTypeConverter and it did generate custom names for anchor tag but it did not generate alias for repeated objects. Looks like will have to override the complete behavior to achieve what I want but since I do not know how library works it is difficult to change.

[BBoldenow-Alt]

That sounds like what I saw. When I have time the way I was planning to implement it is to create a custom attribute the library would read called [YamlAnchor]. Good luck, sorry I haven’t gotten around to it myself yet!

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[EdwardCooke]

Take a look at my suggestion #807

[BBoldenow-Alt]

@Nidhi1819

You may have already seen this since it was your question, but take a look at this suggestion, and the additional context I provided after it was closed. This works for me now. Custom anchor names using data from the object, exactly like I was hoping to do via a custom attribute. This was a lot faster though.