PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector Class Reference

Helper class to perform object type introspection and object instantiation. More...

Static Public Member Functions
static Type	GetType (string name, string library)
	Gets object type by its name and library where it is defined. More...
static Type	GetType (string name)
	Gets object type by its name. More...
static Type	GetTypeByDescriptor (TypeDescriptor type)
	Gets object type by type descriptor. More...
static object	CreateInstanceByType (Type type, params object[] args)
	Creates an instance of an object type. More...
static object	CreateInstance (string name, string library, params object[] args)
	Creates an instance of an object type specified by its name and library where it is defined. More...
static object	CreateInstance (string name, params object[] args)
	Creates an instance of an object type specified by its name. More...
static object	CreateInstanceByDescriptor (TypeDescriptor type, params object[] args)
	Creates an instance of an object type specified by type descriptor. More...

Detailed Description

Helper class to perform object type introspection and object instantiation.

This class has symmetric implementation across all languages supported by Pip.Services toolkit and used to support dynamic data processing.

Because all languages have different casing and case sensitivity rules, this TypeReflector treats all type names as case insensitive.

var descriptor = new TypeDescriptor("MyObject", "mylibrary");
TypeReflector.GetTypeByDescriptor(descriptor);
var myObj = TypeReflector.createInstanceByDescriptor(descriptor);

See TypeDescriptor

Member Function Documentation

CreateInstance() [1/2]

static object PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector.CreateInstance ( string  name, string  library, params object []  args  )

static

Creates an instance of an object type specified by its name and library where it is defined.

Parameters

name	an object type name.
library	a library (module) where object type is defined.
args	arguments for the object constructor.

Returns

the created object instance.

CreateInstance() [2/2]

static object PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector.CreateInstance ( string  name, params object []  args  )

static

Creates an instance of an object type specified by its name.

Parameters

name	an object type name.
args	arguments for the object constructor.

Returns

the created object instance.

CreateInstanceByDescriptor()

static object PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector.CreateInstanceByDescriptor ( TypeDescriptor  type, params object []  args  )

static

Creates an instance of an object type specified by type descriptor.

Parameters

type	a type descriptor that points to an object type
args	arguments for the object constructor.

Returns

the created object instance.

CreateInstanceByType()

static object PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector.CreateInstanceByType ( Type  type, params object []  args  )

static

Creates an instance of an object type.

Parameters

type	an object type (factory function) to create.
args	arguments for the object constructor.

Returns

the created object instance.

GetType() [1/2]

static Type PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector.GetType ( string  name, string  library  )

static

Gets object type by its name and library where it is defined.

Parameters

name	an object type name.
library	a library where the type is defined

Returns

the object type or null is the type wasn't found.

GetType() [2/2]

static Type PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector.GetType ( string  name )

static

Gets object type by its name.

Parameters

name	an object type name.

Returns

the object type or null is the type wasn't found.

GetTypeByDescriptor()

static Type PipServices3.Commons.Reflect.TypeReflector.GetTypeByDescriptor ( TypeDescriptor  type )

static

Gets object type by type descriptor.

Parameters

type	a type descriptor that points to an object type

Returns

the object type or null is the type wasn't found.

See GetType(string, string), TypeDescriptor

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• src/Reflect/TypeReflector.cs