From: Ola Bini <ola.bini@...>
Date: 2008-11-26T18:31:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Exclude members from YAML conversion?

Christian Kerth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have the following class:
>
> class user
>
> attr_accessor :userid, :username
>
> def initialize
> @userid = ""
> @username = ""
>
> @prefix = false
> @unprefix = false
> end
>
> end
>
> when i convert that with to_yaml, all 4 member variables are translated
> into the yaml string. I need to exclude the members @prefix and
> @unprefix, they are used just for internal decisions and dosn't need to
> be in the yaml string.
>
> how do i do that?
>   

You can override yaml_properties to return only the ones you want to be 
in the yaml string.

Cheers

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