Orange serializer/deserializer

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How can I modify the pre serialization and post serialization 
values? I need to transform some variables that are stored but I 
would like to do this easily "inline"(would be cool to be able to 
provide a delegate to do the transformations at the site of 
definition of the fields).

Also, how does orange handle properties? Seems it just deals with 
fields and ignores all functions(does not use getter and setter 
of properties). This is valid, of course, just want to make sure. 
I still need to be able to transform values pre and post though.