Question

I have a property like so:

private Decimal _payout; 
public Decimal PayoutValue
    {
        get { return _payout; }
        set
        {
            _payout = value;

            //second part of following conditional is an enum
            if (Math.Abs(value) > 1 && this.PayoutType == CutType.Percent)
            {
                _payout /= 100;
            }
        }
    }

As you can see, it is dependent upon the value of PayoutType, which is just a simple enum property:

public CutType PayoutType { get; set; }

My problem is that PayoutType doesn’t seem to get set before PayoutValue is set, so the conditional below is never true. How do I force the PayoutType to be set before PayoutValue is evaluated?

Thanks.

UPDATE Thanks for your answers guys. I guess I should have mentioned that most of the time this object is bound via DataContexts or from an Http.Post from my client side (MVC project), so I don’t really have any constructors. Is there any other way, or should I start getting creative with my programming?

Answer 1

How about this ?

get
{
   if (Math.Abs(value) > 1 && this.PayoutType == CutType.Percent)
   {
      return _payout /100;
   }
   return _payout;
}
set{_payout = value;}

So that you do not change the value that was set.