Question

I am looking at a pattern implemented in Java and have some questions about how it aligns to (can be ported to) C#.

Java:

class Foo {     private Class someClass;     ... }  class Bar {     private Field some Field; } 

First, Class stores an instance of a domain object. It looks like Java exposes reflection methods on the type which are used to access fields on the object through reflection. What would type would be synonymous in C#? Would I use object and then use MethodInfo or is there a better way?

Second, Field is type in the framework and is assigned by using:

someClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName) 

Is there a parallel in the .NET framework i should use?

Right now I created a custom object in place of the Class in Foo, and I created a custom object for Field. Is there a preferred way to do this?

Answer 1

You may take a look at the FieldInfo type and GetField method.

Code might look something among the lines:

class Foo {     public Type someClass;     ... }  class Bar {     private FieldInfo some_Field;      public Assign(string fieldName)     {         Foo foo = new Foo();         some_Field = foo.someClass.GetField(fieldName);     } }