Question

I’ve got a class, which has three overloaded methods. Let’s say, there is:

class MyChildClass
{
    public void myMethod(int i)
        { /* do something with i */ }
    public void myMethod(int a, string b)
        { /* get i from a and b and call: */ myMethod(i); }
    public void myMethod(string c, string d)
        { /* get i from c and d and call: */ myMethod(i); }
}

Now I’d like this class to be a private field in other (parent) class, but I need those three methods to be accessible. For now, I just did:

class MyBaseClass
{
    private MyChildClass myObject = new myChildClass(); // or similar
    public void myMethod(int i) 
        { myObject.myMethod(i);    }
    public void myMethod(int a, string b) 
        { myObject.myMethod(a, b); }
    public void myMethod(string c, string s) 
        { myObject.myMethod(c, d); }
}

Is there a way to implement it as one short method? Something which would look like:

public void myMethod(unknownListOfArgumentsOfDifferentTypes args)
    { myObject.myMethod(args); }

I tried to use public void myMethod(params object[] something) but it didn’t work. Is it possible, or do I have to “project” every method into another?

EDIT: Child class has various methods and fields, which I want to be accessible for parent class only. That’s why I don’t want parent to derive after it. I didn’t explain that, sorry if it looked like child class contains only those three methods. Those are the methods I want to be accessible as public methods of parent class.

Answer 1

You can use public void myMethod(params object[] something) as in:

public static void Main()
{
    UnknownArgumentsMethod1(1, 2, 3, "foo");
}

public static void UnknownArgumentsMethod1(params object[] list)
{
    UnknownArgumentsMethod2(list);
}

public static void UnknownArgumentsMethod2(params object[] list)
{
    foreach (object o in list)
    {
        if (o.GetType() == typeof(int))
        {
            Console.WriteLine("This is an integer: " + (int)o);
        }
        else if (o.GetType() == typeof(string))
        {
            Console.WriteLine("This is a string: " + (string)o);
        }
    }
}