/* The type of an object contains all the fields of an object, along with all the metadata
* describing the object. We can use methods and objects in the System.Reflection namespace
* to work with Type objects. The code below extract information about all the fields in the
* Person2 type. It prints all the members of the Person2.
* Note that the Name property has been implemented by the compiler as a pair of get and set
* methods (set_Name and get_Name), and the class contains all the methods that are exposed
* by an object, including ToString and, of course, the GetType method. */
private static void InvestingatingATypeExample()
{
Person2 p = new Person2();
Type type = p.GetType();
foreach (MemberInfo member in type.GetMembers())
{
Console.WriteLine(member.ToString());
}
}
public static Person2 DeserializeJSONToObject(string json)
{
Person2 p2 = new Person2();
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json));
DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(p2.GetType());
p2 = ser.ReadObject(ms) as Person2;
ms.Close();
return(p2);
}
/* We can use the information provided by a type to create a call to a method in that type. */
private static void ReflectionMethodCallExample()
{
Person2 p = new Person2();
Type t = p.GetType();
/* The code below will set the name of a person by using the set_Name behavior of the Name
* property in the Person2 class. It does this by finding the MethodInfo for this method and
* then calling the Invoke method on this reference. */
MethodInfo setMethod = t.GetMethod("set_Name");
/* The Invoke method is supplied with a reference to the Person2 that is the target of the
* method invocation and an array of object references which will be used as the arguments
* to that method call.
* This code would, of course, be much slower than just setting the Name property to the value
* "Anderson", but it illustrates the flexibility provided by reflection. A program can now
* obtain a reference to an object, find out what behaviors that object exposes, and then
* make use of the behaviors that it needs. */
setMethod.Invoke(p, new object[] { "Anderson" });
Console.WriteLine(p.Name);
}