CouchbaseBucket holds its own non-configurable ITypeTranscoder with a DefaultSerializer

When using a custom ITypeSerializer, for example in order to add a custom JSON converter, it may not be used by certain methods of CouchbaseBucket, like GetAsync<T>(key) .

So, while the method QueryAsync<T>(queryRequest) ends up using the correct, configured ITypeSerializer, this is ignored by the method GetAsync<T>(key).

In my codebase I horribly solved this with reflection after every creation of a bucket instance:

var bucket = _cluster.OpenBucket(bucketName);

var transcoder = bucket.GetType().GetField("_transcoder", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)?.GetValue(bucket);

var serializer = (DefaultSerializer)((DefaultTranscoder)transcoder).Serializer;

serializer.DeserializationSettings.Converters.Add(new SerializableAbstractTypeConverter());