Sometimes you just want to print out the state of some reasonably rich object (for logging or GUI mock-up or whatever). This code gives you a PropertyGetter class with two easy-to-use static methods. listProperties returns a name: value string listing of the properties on the input object, for easy logging.
If you want the object's properties as a list of properties you can get that as well.
NB: This simple class does not recurse through complex objects, so you will only ever get the top-level of a property.
Code:
If you want the object's properties as a list of properties you can get that as well.
NB: This simple class does not recurse through complex objects, so you will only ever get the top-level of a property.
Code:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
namespace Code_Examples {
class PropertyGetter {
public static string listProperties(object someObject) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
List<pair> props = getProperties(someObject);
foreach (Pair prop in props) {
sb.AppendLine(prop.Name + ": " + prop.Value);
}
return sb.ToString();
}
public static List<pair> getProperties(object someObject) {
List<pair> dic = new List<pair>();
PropertyInfo[] props = someObject.GetType().GetProperties();
foreach (PropertyInfo prop in props) {
Pair t = new Pair {
Name = prop.Name,
Value = prop.GetValue(someObject, null)
};
dic.Add(t);
}
return dic;
}
}
public class Pair {
public string Name {
get;
set;
}
public object Value {
get;
set;
}
}
}
