ByteSizeTypeConverter issue

[Furer Alexander]

We are using ConfigurationBinder to populate the value from the configuration section, but looks like the converter is not picked up (probably because it's defined as internal) :

Next call converter.CanConvertFrom(typeof(string)) returns false and the converter is not invoked.

Snippet from ConfigurationBinder :

 TypeConverter converter = TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(type);
     if (converter.CanConvertFrom(typeof(string))) {
 ...
       }

Please make the ByteSizeTypeConverter as public .

Building with sdk 7.0, targeting 6.0

[Felipe Machado]

I was not even aware that there was already a type converter in ByteSize. I'm getting command line arguments with a command line parsing library which needs type converters to work and I just created my own as bellow:

public class ByteSizeTypeConverter : TypeConverter
{
    public override bool CanConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext? context, Type sourceType) =>
        sourceType == typeof(string) || base.CanConvertFrom(context, sourceType);

    public override object? ConvertFrom(ITypeDescriptorContext? context, CultureInfo? culture, object value) =>
        value is string s ? ByteSize.Parse(s) : base.ConvertFrom(context, culture, value);
    
    public override object? ConvertTo(ITypeDescriptorContext? context, CultureInfo? culture, object? value, Type destinationType) =>
        value is ByteSize ? value.ToString() : base.ConvertTo(context, culture, value, destinationType);
}

Then all I needed to do was to "add" it to the "mix":

// Need to add our ByteSize TypeConverter
TypeDescriptor.AddAttributes(typeof(ByteSize), new TypeConverterAttribute(typeof(ByteSizeTypeConverter)));

You only need to call it once, probably at your app's startup code.

[Furer Alexander]

Yes, we did the same, copy-pasted the internal converter code to our code base and hooked it with AddAttribute.
Works, but smells.....