/// <summary>
/// Creates an instance of this class for the given type.
/// </summary>
/// <owner>SumedhK</owner>
/// <param name="type"></param>
/// <param name="assembly"></param>
internal LoadedType(Type type, AssemblyLoadInfo assembly)
{
ErrorUtilities.VerifyThrow(type != null, "We must have the type.");
ErrorUtilities.VerifyThrow(assembly != null, "We must have the assembly the type was loaded from.");
this.type = type;
this.assembly = assembly;
}
/// <summary>
/// Determines if two AssemblyLoadInfos are effectively the same.
/// </summary>
/// <returns></returns>
/// <owner>RGoel</owner>
public override bool Equals(Object obj)
{
if (obj == null)
{
return(false);
}
AssemblyLoadInfo otherAssemblyInfo = obj as AssemblyLoadInfo;
if (otherAssemblyInfo == null)
{
return(false);
}
return((this.AssemblyName == otherAssemblyInfo.AssemblyName) && (this.AssemblyFile == otherAssemblyInfo.AssemblyFile));
}
/// <summary>
/// Loads the specified type if it exists in the given assembly. If the type name is fully qualified, then a match (if
/// any) is unambiguous; otherwise, if there are multiple types with the same name in different namespaces, the first type
/// found will be returned.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>This method throws exceptions -- it is the responsibility of the caller to handle them.</remarks>
/// <owner>SumedhK</owner>
/// <param name="typeName">Can be empty string.</param>
/// <param name="assembly"></param>
/// <returns>The loaded type, or null if the type was not found.</returns>
internal LoadedType Load
(
string typeName,
AssemblyLoadInfo assembly
)
{
Type type = null;
// Maybe we've already cracked open this assembly before. If so, just grab the list
// of public desired types that we found last time.
List <Type> desiredTypesInAssembly = null;
cacheOfAllDesiredTypesInAnAssembly.TryGetValue(assembly, out desiredTypesInAssembly);
// If we have the assembly name (strong or weak), and we haven't cracked this assembly open
// before to discover all the public desired types.
if ((assembly.AssemblyName != null) && (typeName.Length > 0) && (desiredTypesInAssembly == null))
{
try
{
// try to load the type using its assembly qualified name
type = Type.GetType(typeName + "," + assembly.AssemblyName, false /* don't throw on error */, true /* case-insensitive */);
}
catch (ArgumentException)
{
// Type.GetType() will throw this exception if the type name is invalid -- but we have no idea if it's the
// type or the assembly name that's the problem -- so just ignore the exception, because we're going to
// check the existence/validity of the assembly and type respectively, below anyway
}
}
// if we found the type, it means its assembly qualified name was also its fully qualified name
if (type != null)
{
// if it's not the right type, bail out -- there's no point searching further since we already matched on the
// fully qualified name
if (!isDesiredType(type, null))
{
return(null);
}
}
// if the type name was not fully qualified, or if we only have the assembly file/path
else
{
if (desiredTypesInAssembly == null)
{
// we need to search the assembly for the type...
Assembly loadedAssembly;
try
{
if (assembly.AssemblyName != null)
{
loadedAssembly = Assembly.Load(assembly.AssemblyName);
}
else
{
loadedAssembly = Assembly.UnsafeLoadFrom(assembly.AssemblyFile);
}
}
// Assembly.Load() and Assembly.LoadFrom() will throw an ArgumentException if the assembly name is invalid
catch (ArgumentException e)
{
// convert to a FileNotFoundException because it's more meaningful
// NOTE: don't use ErrorUtilities.VerifyThrowFileExists() here because that will hit the disk again
throw new FileNotFoundException(null, assembly.ToString(), e);
}
// only look at public types
Type[] allPublicTypesInAssembly = loadedAssembly.GetExportedTypes();
desiredTypesInAssembly = new List <Type>();
foreach (Type publicType in allPublicTypesInAssembly)
{
if (isDesiredType(publicType, null))
{
desiredTypesInAssembly.Add(publicType);
}
}
// Save the list of desired types into our cache, so that we don't have to crack it
// open again.
cacheOfAllDesiredTypesInAnAssembly[assembly] = desiredTypesInAssembly;
}
foreach (Type desiredTypeInAssembly in desiredTypesInAssembly)
{
// if type matches partially on its name
if ((typeName.Length == 0) || IsPartialTypeNameMatch(desiredTypeInAssembly.FullName, typeName))
{
type = desiredTypeInAssembly;
break;
}
}
}
if (type != null)
{
return(new LoadedType(type, assembly));
}
return(null);
}