How do you exclude a property from being persisted in Azure Table storage?

Question

If I have a class like this:

    public class Facet : TableServiceEntity
{
    public Guid ParentId { get; set; }      
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Uri{ get; set; }
    public Facet Parent { get; set; }
}

Parent is derived from the ParentId Guid, and that relationship is intended to be filled in by my repository. So how do I tell Azure to leave that field alone? Is there an Ignore attribute of some type, or do I have to create an inherited class that provides those relationships instead?

user_168218 · Answer

This reply from Andy Cross at bwc --- Thank you again Andy. This question an azure forums

Hi,

Use the WritingEntity and ReadingEntity events. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.services.client.dataservicecontext.writingentity.aspx This gives you all the control you need.

For reference there's a blog post linked off here too: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/d9144bb5-d8bb-4e42-a478-58addebfc3c8

Thanks Andy

user_5714633 · Answer

You could also make the getter and setter non-public in order to skip the property from being saved in the table storage database.

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21071796/5714633

How do you exclude a property from being persisted in Azure Table storage?

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