Avoiding the circular reference stop

[RikvanderLinde]

I have been trying to find a way to get in between the moment where the serializer finds something it already serialized, and the moment where it decides to return null.

My data has a lot of references to itself, and a null destroys the linking. Hence when it finds a circular reference I want to do a simple Entity check, and if so serialize only the ID. That way the data structure remains intact, since an property could be null.

I have tried looking in the visitors, and the "XmlSerializationVisitor" has something called "isCircularRef"

This guided me towards the "SerializationContext" where it seems to keep track of the objects in its "$visitingSet"

This is private, and gives me no option remove objects. I also cant extend it, since the visitor checks for the "SerializationContext"
The other problem is that I am looking for the JSON visitor...

At this point I feel like something is wrong, as I need to edit so much files only slightly.

TL:DR

Turn this:

A

[
    {
    "id": "00001",
    "B": {
        "id": "00002",
        "A": null,
        "C": {
            "id": "00003",
        },
]

Into this:

A

[
    {
    "id": "00001",
    "B": {
        "id": "00002",
        "A": {
            "id": "00001",
        },
        "C": {
            "id": "00003",
        },
]

[RikvanderLinde]

Wrong repo