private static string GetClassThumbprint(XmlAttributeOverrides overrides)
{
Hashtable types = GetTypesHashtable(overrides);
// Types are the most significant information
// in the key ... that why the type info comes first
// what does the thumbprint of an XmlAttributeOverrides need to
// consist of?
// Type names are the key of the outer hashtable
// The values of the outer hashtable are more hashtables
// The keys of the inner hashtables are member names. The
// values of the inner hashtable are XmlAttributes objects.
// I.e. to create a content-based thumbprint of an
// XmlAttributeOverrides we need to normalize first the
// type names, then the member names and finally include the
// values of each XmlAttributes object in the thumbprint.
// so my first attempt at a thumbprint looks like this:
// typeName:memberName:attributes:memberName:attributes:...
// memberNames are orders alphabetically
// the complete thumbprint for the XmlAttributeOverrides
// concatenates the individual thumbrprints for a type in
// the alphabetical order of the type names.
StringSorter sorter = new StringSorter();
foreach (Type t in types.Keys)
{
sorter.AddString(t.AssemblyQualifiedName);
}
string[] sortedTypeNames = sorter.GetOrderedArray();
// now we have the types for which we have overriding attributes
// in alphabetical order
// TODO
// Now generate thumbprint for each member of
// each type
StringBuilder printBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach (string typeName in sortedTypeNames)
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("+++ Starting thumbprint for type {0}", typeName));
printBuilder.AppendFormat(">>{0}>>", typeName);
GetTypePrint(typeName, types, printBuilder);
printBuilder.Append("<<");
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("--- Finished thumbprint for type {0}", typeName));
}
return(printBuilder.ToString());
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates a signature for the passed in Type array. The order
/// of the elements in the array does not influence the signature.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="types"></param>
/// <returns>An instance indpendent signature of the Type array</returns>
public static string GetTypeArraySignature(Type[] types)
{
string thumbPrint = null;
if (null != types && types.Length > 0)
{
// to make sure we don't account for the order
// of the types in the array, we create one SortedList
// with the type names, concatenate them and hash that.
StringSorter sorter = new StringSorter();
foreach (Type t in types)
{
sorter.AddString(t.AssemblyQualifiedName);
}
thumbPrint = string.Join(":", sorter.GetOrderedArray());
}
return(thumbPrint);
}
private static void GetTypePrint(string typeName, Hashtable attributes, StringBuilder printBuilder)
{
Type t = Type.GetType(typeName);
Hashtable memberAttributes = attributes[t] as Hashtable;
System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert(null != memberAttributes);
StringSorter sorter = new StringSorter();
foreach (string memberName in memberAttributes.Keys)
{
sorter.AddString(memberName);
}
string[] sortedMemberNames = sorter.GetOrderedArray();
foreach (string memberName in sortedMemberNames)
{
printBuilder.AppendFormat("**{0}**", memberName);
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("++ Started member thumbprint for type {0}, member:{1}.", typeName, memberName));
GetXmlAttributesThumbprint(memberAttributes[memberName] as XmlAttributes, printBuilder);
printBuilder.Append("***");
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("-- Finished member thumbprint for type {0}, member:{1}.", typeName, memberName));
}
}