Question

I use classes to respond to PageMethods in some webpages. Asp.net engine automatically serializes the Class to JSON. I have few classes that have common properties like "RequestState"-Enum and "Error"-String which represent the State of the Request and the String describing the Error if any. For example look into this class below,

public  class Contacts
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Country { get; set; }
    public RequestState RequestState { get; set; }
    public string   Message { get; set; }
}

last two properties come in more than 4-5 classes. How do i abstract these properties so that they become common instead of declaring them in each class like how i do now. Interface could be possible i would like your ideas too for this, code snippet would be highly appreciated. thanks 🙂

Answer 1

public abstract class MessageBase
{
    public RequestState RequestState { get; set; }
    public string Message { get; set; }
}


public class Contacts : MessageBase
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Country { get; set; }
}