mgernand / ObjectStructure

A libary that creates a flat structure for types and a flat key-value structure for instances.

ObjectStructure

A libary that creates a flat structure for types and a flat key-value structure for instances.

Usage

If you just ant to create the schema of a type just pass it to the IStructureBuilder.

IStructureBuilder builder = new StructureBuilder();
Structure structure = builder.CreateStructure<Customer>();

Console.WriteLine(structure.Schema);

This will result in a flat list of the property structure of the type Customer.

FirstName
LastName
Address
Address.Street
Address.Number
Address.Zip
Address.City
Address.Country
Tags

To create the schema and accessors for the values of an instance pass the instance to the IStructureBuilder.

Customer customer = new Customer
{
	FirstName = "Sherlock",
	LastName = "Holmes",
	Address = new Address
	{
		Street = "Baker Street",
		Number = "221b",
		Zip = "NW1",
		City = "London",
		Country = "England"
	},
	Tags = new string[] { "detective", "addict" }
};

IStructureBuilder builder = new StructureBuilder();
Structure structure = builder.CreateStructure(customer);

Console.WriteLine(structure.Indices);

This will result in a flat list of the property values in the given instance of type Customer.

FirstName = "Sherlock"
LastName = "Holmes"
Address = "ConsoleApp1.Address"
Address.Street = "Baker Street"
Address.Number = "221b"
Address.Zip = "NW1"
Address.City = "London"
Address.Country = "England"
Tags = "System.String[]"
Tags[0] = "detective"
Tags[1] = "addict"

Acknowledgement

Most of the terminology and code structure of the library comes from the libary Structurizer by Daniel Wertheim. This is basically a fork of his work which I bent to my needs, f.e. the need to support null values in index values and some other fixes and tweaks. I completely remove the configuration part and added the ability to just get the schema of a type. The library this work is based on is licensed under the MIT license and so it this library.

References

Daniel Wertheim

Structurizer