[BUG] Azure.ETagConverter is internal, blocks using System.Text.Json source gen to deserialize objects

[stephenjust]

Library name and version

Azure.Core 1.28.0

Describe the bug

System.Text.Json's source generators attempt to reference Azure.ETagConverter when you use source generators to create a JsonSerializerContext.

Making Azure.ETagConverter public instead of internal should resolve this issue.

Expected behavior

Azure.ETagConverter should be accessible so that Source Generators create valid code.

Actual behavior

Error CS0122 'ETagConverter' is inaccessible due to its protection level FirewallService System.Text.Json.SourceGeneration\System.Text.Json.SourceGeneration.JsonSourceGenerator\NetworkSecurityGroupTemplateSerializerContext.ETag.g.cs 25 Active

Reproduction Steps

Create a source generator class on .net 6.0 with System.Text.Json 6.0.0:

 [JsonSourceGenerationOptions(PropertyNamingPolicy = JsonKnownNamingPolicy.CamelCase)]
 [JsonSerializable(typeof(SecurityRuleData))]
 internal partial class SecurityRuleDataSerializerContext : JsonSerializerContext
 {
 }

On build, the build will fail due to the reference to Azure.ETagConverter in the generated output.

(This also occurs if you were to include a property of type SecurityRuleData inside some other class. that had a JsonSerializerContext created for it.)

Environment

.NET SDK:
Version: 7.0.202
Commit: 6c74320bc3

Runtime Environment:
OS Name: Windows
OS Version: 10.0.22624
OS Platform: Windows
RID: win10-x64
Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\7.0.202\

Host:
Version: 7.0.4
Architecture: x64
Commit: 0a396acafe

.NET SDKs installed:
3.1.426 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
5.0.407 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
5.0.416 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
6.0.202 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
6.0.301 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
7.0.202 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET runtimes installed:
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 6.0.15 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.AspNetCore.App 7.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.AspNetCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.12 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 6.0.15 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.NETCore.App 7.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 6.0.15 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]
Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App 7.0.4 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App]

Other architectures found:
x86 [C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet]
registered at [HKLM\SOFTWARE\dotnet\Setup\InstalledVersions\x86\InstallLocation]

Environment variables:
Not set

global.json file:
Not found

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[jsquire]

Hi @stephenjust. Thank you for reaching out and we regret that you're experiencing difficulties. Can you provide a bit more context to help me understand the end-to-end scenario for what you're trying to accomplish?

[github-actions]

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[github-actions]

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[stephenjust]

We want to enable trimming on our dotnet application that works with ARM models. Reflection based serializers are not supported in trimmed applications, so we tried to use a source generator based serializer. However, the system.text.json source generator does not work on these nuget packages because of their use of an internal converter.

[jsquire]

//cc: @annelo-msft, @JoshLove-msft, @christothes, @AlexanderSher, @KrzysztofCwalina, @tg-msft for discussion.

[jsquire]

Thank you for the additional context, @stephenjust. I've looped in some folks for discussion.

[annelo-msft]

Adding @m-nash, who is working on serialization for .NET Azure SDK libraries.

[fleed]

Run into the same problem almost 2 years later. Any update on this?