// Get the diagnostic name string for a type. This attempts to reformat the string into something that is essentially human readable.
// Returns true if the function is successful.
// runtimeTypeHandle represents the type to get a name for
// diagnosticName is the name that is returned
//
// the genericParameterOffsets list is an optional parameter that contains the list of the locations of where generic parameters may be inserted
// to make the string represent an instantiated generic.
//
// For example for Dictionary<K,V>, metadata names the type Dictionary`2, but this function will return Dictionary<,>
// For consumers of this function that will be inserting generic arguments, the genericParameterOffsets list is used to find where to insert the generic parameter name.
//
// That isn't all that interesting for Dictionary, but it becomes substantially more interesting for nested generic types, or types which are compiler named as
// those may contain embedded <> pairs and such.
public static bool TryGetDiagnosticStringForNamedType(RuntimeTypeHandle runtimeTypeHandle, out String diagnosticName, List <int> genericParameterOffsets)
{
diagnosticName = null;
ExecutionEnvironmentImplementation executionEnvironment = ReflectionExecution.ExecutionEnvironment;
MetadataReader reader;
TypeReferenceHandle typeReferenceHandle;
if (executionEnvironment.TryGetTypeReferenceForNamedType(runtimeTypeHandle, out reader, out typeReferenceHandle))
{
diagnosticName = GetTypeFullNameFromTypeRef(typeReferenceHandle, reader, genericParameterOffsets);
return(true);
}
QTypeDefinition qTypeDefinition;
if (executionEnvironment.TryGetMetadataForNamedType(runtimeTypeHandle, out qTypeDefinition))
{
TryGetFullNameFromTypeDefEcma(qTypeDefinition, genericParameterOffsets, ref diagnosticName);
if (diagnosticName != null)
{
return(true);
}
if (qTypeDefinition.IsNativeFormatMetadataBased)
{
TypeDefinitionHandle typeDefinitionHandle = qTypeDefinition.NativeFormatHandle;
diagnosticName = GetTypeFullNameFromTypeDef(typeDefinitionHandle, qTypeDefinition.NativeFormatReader, genericParameterOffsets);
return(true);
}
}
return(false);
}
// Get the diagnostic name string for a type. This attempts to reformat the string into something that is essentially human readable.
// Returns true if the function is successful.
// runtimeTypeHandle represents the type to get a name for
// diagnosticName is the name that is returned
//
// the genericParameterOffsets list is an optional parameter that contains the list of the locations of where generic parameters may be inserted
// to make the string represent an instantiated generic.
//
// For example for Dictionary<K,V>, metadata names the type Dictionary`2, but this function will return Dictionary<,>
// For consumers of this function that will be inserting generic arguments, the genericParameterOffsets list is used to find where to insert the generic parameter name.
//
// That isn't all that interesting for Dictionary, but it becomes substantially more interesting for nested generic types, or types which are compiler named as
// those may contain embedded <> pairs and such.
public static bool TryGetDiagnosticStringForNamedType(RuntimeTypeHandle runtimeTypeHandle, out String diagnosticName, List <int> genericParameterOffsets)
{
diagnosticName = null;
ExecutionEnvironmentImplementation executionEnvironment = ReflectionExecution.ExecutionEnvironment;
MetadataReader reader;
TypeReferenceHandle typeReferenceHandle;
if (executionEnvironment.TryGetTypeReferenceForNamedType(runtimeTypeHandle, out reader, out typeReferenceHandle))
{
diagnosticName = GetTypeFullNameFromTypeRef(typeReferenceHandle, reader, genericParameterOffsets);
return(true);
}
TypeDefinitionHandle typeDefinitionHandle;
if (executionEnvironment.TryGetMetadataForNamedType(runtimeTypeHandle, out reader, out typeDefinitionHandle))
{
diagnosticName = GetTypeFullNameFromTypeDef(typeDefinitionHandle, reader, genericParameterOffsets);
return(true);
}
return(false);
}
