Question

Essentially I have to use a poorly implemented web service maintained by other programmers. They have two classes that don’t derive from a parent class, but have the same properties (Ughh…). So it looks like this in my web service proxy class file:

public partial class Product1
{
    public int Quantity;
    public int Price;
}

public partial class Product2
{
    public int Quantity;
    public int Price;
}

So what’s the best way to grab the values from known properties without duplicating the code? I know I probably could use reflection, but that can get ugly. If there is an easier less crazier way to do it (maybe in the new c# features?) please let me know.

Answer 1

I’m not sure I fully understand your situation, but maybe something like this?
Define an IProduct interface with getQuantity and getPrice methods, and implement it in both classes:

public partial class Product1 : IProduct
{
  public int Quantity;
  public int Price;
  public int getQuantity() { return Quantity; }
  public int getPrice() { return Price; }
}

And similarly for the other one; then just use them both as IProduct.