/// <summary>
/// Converts Magic 'Vector' Type to 'dotNetType'
/// </summary>
/// <param name="magicVal"></param>
/// <param name="dotNetType"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static object convertVectorToDotNet(string magicVal, Type dotNetType)
{
Object retObject = null;
VectorType vector = new VectorType(magicVal);
StorageAttribute vecCellAttr = VectorType.getCellsAttr(magicVal);
int vecSize = (int)VectorType.getVecSize(magicVal);
Type arrayType = null;
String vecCellMagicFormat;
Object vecCellDotNetFormat;
// get the default conversion Type
arrayType = getDefaultDotNetTypeForVector(vector);
if (arrayType != null)
{
// construct the arrayObject
Array arrayObj = ReflectionServices.CreateArrayInstance(arrayType, new int[] { vecSize });
for (int idx = 0; idx < vecSize; idx++)
{
vecCellMagicFormat = vector.getVecCell(idx + 1);
vecCellDotNetFormat = convertMagicToDotNet(vecCellMagicFormat, vecCellAttr, arrayType);
arrayObj.SetValue(vecCellDotNetFormat, idx);
}
// perform cast into 'dotNetType'
retObject = doCast(arrayObj, dotNetType);
}
return(retObject);
}
/// <summary>
/// gets the default dotnet type for vector
/// </summary>
/// <param name="vector"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
private static Type getDefaultDotNetTypeForVector(VectorType vector)
{
StorageAttribute vecCellAttr = vector.getCellsAttr();
Type dotNetType = null;
switch (vecCellAttr)
{
case StorageAttribute.NUMERIC:
dotNetType = typeof(Double);
break;
case StorageAttribute.ALPHA:
case StorageAttribute.UNICODE:
dotNetType = typeof(String);
break;
case StorageAttribute.DATE:
dotNetType = typeof(DateTime);
break;
case StorageAttribute.TIME:
dotNetType = typeof(TimeSpan);
break;
case StorageAttribute.BOOLEAN:
dotNetType = typeof(Boolean);
break;
case StorageAttribute.BLOB:
if (vector.getVecSize() > 0 && BlobType.getContentType(vector.getVecCell(1)) == BlobType.CONTENT_TYPE_BINARY)
{
dotNetType = typeof(Byte[]);
}
else
{
dotNetType = typeof(String);
}
break;
case StorageAttribute.BLOB_VECTOR:
dotNetType = typeof(Array);
break;
case StorageAttribute.DOTNET:
dotNetType = typeof(Object);
break;
}
return(dotNetType);
}