Serialize Private Properties

[surr34]

Is it possible to serialize private properties as well? In the end I want to serialize all properties that have the YamlMember. I found this question in variations multiple times on Stackoverflow without any answers.

Example:
I want to have both t1 and t2 serialized:

using System;
using System.IO;
using YamlDotNet.Serialization;

class Foo
{
    public Foo() {}
    public Foo(int t1, int t2)
    {
        this.T1 = t1;
        this.T2 = t2;
    }

    [YamlMember(Alias = "t1")]
    private int T1 { get; set; }

    [YamlMember(Alias = "t2")]
    public int T2 { get; private set; }

    public void Print()
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"{this.T1} - {this.T2}");
    }
}


public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        var serializer = new SerializerBuilder().Build();
        var deserializer = new DeserializerBuilder().Build();
        var foo = new Foo(1, 2);

        var strWriter = new StringWriter();
        serializer.Serialize(strWriter, foo);
        // t1 has not been serialized

        Console.WriteLine(strWriter.ToString());

        var str = @"
t1: 3
t2: 4
";
        // Fails, "can't find t1"
        var foo2 = (Foo)deserializer.Deserialize(str, typeof(Foo));
        foo2.Print();
    }
}

[aaubry]

Unfortunately it is not possible at this time. Doing so would require to replace a component that is hard-coded, but I will look into fixing that.
Also, your use case seems to make a lot of sense and should probably be supported out of the box.

[leo60228]

Is there any update on this?

[EdwardCooke]

I believe this is possible now. Pretty sure there’s something like includeprivatemembers on the serializerbuilder.
Closing since the solution exists and no comments in almost 4 years.