`SqlRowConverter` does not implement `JsonConverter`

[felix-stnr]

Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch version: 8.1.1

Elasticsearch version: 8.7.0

.NET runtime version: .NET 7.0.23

Operating system version: Windows 11

Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior:
The SqlRowConverter, which is located within the SqlRow class (see here) overrides the method Write from the JsonConverter base class. However, this method is not implemented yet and hence always throws a NotImplementedException. Thus, serializing the response will always lead to an exception. To fix this bug the Write method should be correctly overwritten/implemented.

Maybe this issue is related to #7713.

[stevejgordon]

Hi, @felix-stnr. Why are you serializing the response? The response types are only expected to be deserialized from the JSON sent by the server. We don't guarantee that they will be serializable unless used on requests.

[felix-stnr]

Hi there. The main reason why I wanted to serialize the response is that I want to forward it to another client, which relies on a specific JSON format. Since the SqlRow derives from the JsonConverter class, I expected the serialization to work out of the box. After always running into the same exception, I took a look at the code of the SqlRow and saw that this functionality was not implemented. But I guess implementing the serialization in the Elasticsearch .NET client directly would not align with the concept you just mentioned. Therefore, I am not sure anymore if this is actually an issue or just expected behavior.
Moreover, it turned out that handling the serialization in my own code is rather easy.

[stevejgordon]

@felix-stnr Yes, this is by design in the client (for now, at least) since it's a read-only type from our perspective. We recommend that consumers convert data from our types to their own types before sending data downstream. I'm going to close this issue, and we can always revisit it if this use case comes up regularly.