Question

Is it possible to create a generic IList method? Here’s how I want it to be implemented:

List<Entity1> lstEnt1 = _myClass.GenerateListFromXml<Entity1>(@"C\test.xml");
List<Entity2> lstEnt2 = _myClass.GenerateListFromXml<Entity1>(@"C\test.xml");

Here’s what I got so far:

    public List<XMLModule> RetrieveListFromXml(string appSetting, string module)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }

I want to change the XMLModule to a generic one which I can pass in an entity.

Need help on this guys. Thanks!

Answer 1

Pretty simple, just use a generic T type and then decide the internal behavior.

public List<T> RetrieveListFromXml<T>(string appSetting, string module)
{
    throw new NotImplementedException();
}