Question

Trying to get my head around generic interfaces and classes. How do I ‘get T’ when using my class in the new method and call data.method using this type?

Public MustInherit Class RepositoryBase(Of T)
    Implements IRepository(Of T)

    Private Data As IDAL

    Public Sub New()
        Data = DTOParserFactory.GetParser(T.GetType().ToString())
    End Sub

    Public Sub delete(BaseDTO As T) Implements Domain.Business.IRepository(Of T).delete
        'Data.delete(Convert.ChangeType(BaseDTO, TypeOf(Type))
    End Sub

    Public Function getAll() As System.Linq.IQueryable(Of T) Implements Domain.Business.IRepository(Of T).getAll
        'Return Data.getAll()()
    End Function
End Class

Answer 1

I’m assuming you need to get the Type object for T?

In your constructor

Public Sub New()
    Data = DTOParserFactory.GetParser(GetType(T).ToString())
End Sub