Handle TargetInvocationException when reading a property

[alexeykuptsov]

In my project I use YamlDotNet to serialize arbitrary objects. I can't mark properties of the objects with [YamlIgnore] but I want serializer not to fail in cases when an erroneous property is met. Could you add an ability to serialize such properties as YAML strings literals with a simple error message?

[alexeykuptsov]

I'm sorry for this mess of closing and reopening. I'm getting used to contributing to OSS 😅

[EdwardCooke]

Can also add this to the static serializer pieces of yamldotnet?

[alexeykuptsov]

I've added test StaticSerializationHandlesTargetInvocationException but I don't understand the static serializer output. The serializer doesn't throw and returns empty object output {}. Can you help me with binding field StaticSerializerBuilder.handleTargetInvocationExceptions with the part of code where it reads from an input object property?

[EdwardCooke]

Just looked this over. One other comment, it may be better to bring the exception handling logic out of the object descriptor, instead pass in a method that would get called in the catch. Takes 3 parameters, exception, object and property. Default of that method would be throw. Then people can handle any different exceptions differently based on their needs. For example, dump out the exception message.

[alexeykuptsov]

@EdwardCooke Hi Edward, I've implemented the support of custom exception handler function. But I haven't implemented default method "throw". I don't like this idea because try/catch block may affect performance in simple cases like serialization of plain objects with only auto-properties (POCO).