i'm not sure about your particular issue, but every time i had to choose between being smart and generic with serialization over being straightforward and borin

i'm not sure about your particular issue, but every time i had to choose between being smart and generic with serialization over being straightforward and boring ( at the cost of writing one small line of code for each and every property), i always choose to stay boring. Not only is it nicer to the person that's going to maintain your code and may not know about your smart trick, but with generic code there is always an exception that makes you need to write some code somewhere that breaks the abstraction.