OOP: inheritance of a base class

[DaveC426913]

Nutshell: I want my base class to have all the necessary properties while my derived classes have fewer properties.

My base class is Story. It contains all metadata associated with a story exposed as properties: ID, Date, Name, Text, Status, etc.

My derived class(es) are restricted versions of the base class, so :
BareBonesStory contains only ID, Name, Text and
StoryHeader contains only ID, First10CharsText.

I don't seem to be able to arrange this with any combination of overrides.


Why am I doing this?
1] I'm using a 3rd party app (NewtonSoft.JSON) that takes a class - and all public properties it sees in that class - and returns it as a JSON formatted string (bascially an XML string). So my class has to only expose the properties I want in the string, not everything.


2] I could design it the other way around - with Header as the base class and Story as the dreived class, but that makes little sense. It means I'd have to edit two classes everytime I want to edit my story class.

Ideas?

[pbmods]

BareBonesStory sounds more like a base class, with Story being the derived class.

StoryHeader could be its own class; perhaps a Story object should have a member StoryHeader.