public static ClassFormatter FromClass <T>() where T : class
{
ClassFormatter map = new ClassFormatter();
List <PropertyInfo> properties = typeof(T).GetProperties().ToList();
foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
{
FormattingPropertyAttribute mapProperty = property.GetCustomAttribute <FormattingPropertyAttribute>();
if (mapProperty != null)
{
// property.Name.ToLower() => OriFormat.Jsonify(property.Name)
map.AddKey(property.Name, mapProperty.Name ?? property.Name.ToLower());
}
}
return(map);
}
public static string Format <T>(string frame, T obj) where T : class
{
ClassFormatter map = FromClass <T>();
// get all properties in a class.
List <PropertyInfo> properties = typeof(T).GetProperties().ToList();
// check through all properties in the class specified.
foreach (PropertyInfo property in properties)
{
// future task: find a way to replace only the singular replacement key, as opposed to replacing other
// reference inserted when replacing.
// use stringbuilder to separate the class into pieces?
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(map[property.Name]) && property.GetValue(obj) != null)
{
// ignore array properties, as they must be manually handled.
//if (property.GetValue(obj).GetType().IsArray)
//continue;
frame = frame.Replace(map[property.Name], property.GetValue(obj).ToString());
}
}
// return the final string in which specified values have been replaced.
return(frame);
}