Closed martinjt closed 1 month ago
Yes, you can do this using the IYamlConvertible interface,
using YamlDotNet.Core;
using YamlDotNet.Core.Events;
using YamlDotNet.Serialization;
var data = new Config();
data.Receivers.Add(new Receiver());
data.Receivers.Add(new Receiver());
data.Receivers.Add(new Receiver());
var serializer = new SerializerBuilder().Build();
var yaml = serializer.Serialize(data);
Console.WriteLine(yaml);
public class Config : IYamlConvertible
{
public List<Receiver> Receivers { get; } = [];
public void Read(IParser parser, Type expectedType, ObjectDeserializer nestedObjectDeserializer)
{
}
public void Write(IEmitter emitter, ObjectSerializer nestedObjectSerializer)
{
emitter.Emit(new YamlDotNet.Core.Events.MappingStart());
emitter.Emit(new Scalar("Receivers"));
emitter.Emit(new YamlDotNet.Core.Events.MappingStart());
for (var ordinal = 0; ordinal < Receivers.Count; ordinal++)
{
emitter.Emit(new Scalar($"otlp/{ordinal + 1}"));
nestedObjectSerializer(Receivers[ordinal], typeof(Receiver));
}
emitter.Emit(new YamlDotNet.Core.Events.MappingEnd());
emitter.Emit(new YamlDotNet.Core.Events.MappingEnd());
}
}
public class Receiver
{
public string ReceiverType = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
public string ReceiverName = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
}
Results in
Receivers:
otlp/1:
ReceiverType: ca5a6d4f-7faa-4420-8257-e97a5bdbda00
ReceiverName: 900e3564-2859-4277-9f29-674b16f597ed
otlp/2:
ReceiverType: ce04b24a-96f3-4a8c-a331-43474a3fb6ea
ReceiverName: a13e3668-f6b3-49ba-a2a5-9947182e08f9
otlp/3:
ReceiverType: 55e810bb-6e44-43c5-90db-6e25e7f6258e
ReceiverName: fdf65d79-906f-4927-be96-37701a47177d
Since I gave a working example and it's been a few weeks I'm going to close this.
I'm playing around with building a class that will model how the OpenTelemetry Collector's config works.
Specifically, they have a format that takes a list of components, but does them as Objects
What I want to be able to do is represent that as a list in code (since the OTLP and OTLP/2 objects are the same thing.
So what I want to do is "just" override the name part, and the rendering of the List as a objects.
The classes will look something like this:
Is this possible, I've been struggling to make it work.