/// <summary>
/// The only methods on the public interface used for getting the description.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="what_part">or-ed enum values teling us what caller wants described</param>
/// <returns>report in a string</returns>
public string describe(fm.Itypeinfo.WHAT what_part)
{
lock (this)
{
fm.flags what = new flags(what_part);
bool SHOW_ATTR = what.contains(Itypeinfo.WHAT.ATTRIBUTES);
Type type = this.specimen_.GetType();
System.Text.StringBuilder retval = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
// this info we return always
retval.AppendFormat("{0}{1}", Environment.NewLine, STRNGS.NME);
retval.AppendFormat("{0}\t{1}", Environment.NewLine, base_data(type, true));
if (what == Itypeinfo.WHAT.INTERFACES)
{
bool show_m = what.contains(Itypeinfo.WHAT.INTERFACE_METHODS);
retval.Append(interfaces(this.specimen_, SHOW_ATTR, show_m));
}
if (what == Itypeinfo.WHAT.PARENT)
{
if (type.BaseType != null)
{
retval.Append(STRNGS.BTP);
retval.AppendFormat("{0}\t{1}", Environment.NewLine, base_data(type.BaseType, SHOW_ATTR));
}
}
if (what == Itypeinfo.WHAT.FIELDS)
{
retval.Append(fields(this.specimen_));
}
if (what == Itypeinfo.WHAT.PROPERTIES)
{
retval.Append(propertys(this.specimen_));
}
if (what == Itypeinfo.WHAT.METHODS)
{
retval.Append(methods(this.specimen_.GetType(), SHOW_ATTR));
}
return(retval.ToString());
}
}
