To this day, I have not found a great article about expressions - and how to look at a C# lambda statement and say "oh, that's a blah blah"... so, if you know of a good article, I'd appreciate that as an answer too.
So... given the following c# code:
public class SomeClass<T>
{
public TResult SomeMethod<TResult>(Expression<Func<T, TResult>> expression)
{
// This is just an example... don't get hung up on this :)
return default(TResult);
}
}
public class Person
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
}
How do I do this...
var blah = new SomeClass<Person>();
blah.SomeMethod(p => p.FirstName);
at runtime (using reflection)?
I kinda expect something like this... but I'm sure I'm way off with my choice of expressions.
// By the way, these values are being passed to me... so you
// can't change this part of the question :)
Type personType = typeof(Person);
string propertyName = "FirstName";
// THIS CODE BELOW IS OBVIOUSLY WRONG, BUT YOU GET THE IDEA OF
// WHAT I HOPE TO DO... THIS LINE OF CODE BELOW IS **ALL** I'M
// ASKING HOW TO DO :)
var expression = Expression.MakeUnary(ExpressionType.Lambda,
Expression.Property(Expression.Parameter(personType, "p"),
propertyName), typeof(string));
blah.SomeMethod(expression);
Try this:
var functorParam = Expression.Parameter(typeof(Person));
var lambda = Expression.Lambda(
Expression.Property(functorParam, typeof(Person).GetProperty("FirstName"))
, functorParam /* <<= EDIT #1 */
);
blah.SomeMethod((Expression<Func<Person,string>>)lambda); /* EDIT #2 */
ExpressionBuilder is the way to go.
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