Determine if a property of an anonymous type is a shared collection
I need a method to cycle through the properties of each object and register the property name and value. However, sometimes I end up in a property that is a list object and it all fails. I am collecting the condition below from various SO posts, but returns false every time. Would you like to know how to check if a property of a method is a generic collection type?
Class definition
public class DtccProducer
{
public string ProducerDateOfBirth { get; set; }
public string ProducerGender { get; set; }
public string TransactionType { get; set; }
public List<BigAddress> Addresses { get; set; }
public List<BigCommunicationItem> Communications { get; set; }
}
Method
private static void ParseProducer(object obj)
{
StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();
Type objType = obj.GetType();
foreach (PropertyInfo info in objType.GetProperties())
{
string key = info.Name;
Type propType = info.PropertyType;
if (propType.IsGenericType && typeof(ICollection<>).IsAssignableFrom(propType.GetGenericTypeDefinition()))
{
// This condition never passes - always evaluates to false
}
else
{
string value = (string) info.GetValue(obj, null);
_sb.AppendLine(key + ": " + value);
}
}
}
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This is the code I am using to identify the lists in my log:
if (!propType.IsPrimitive && !propType.IsEnum && propType != typeof(string) && propType.GetInterfaces().Any(x => x.IsGenericType
&& x.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(IEnumerable<>)))
Edit: I added some additional checks to filter out primitive types (int, bool, etc.), enum and strings.
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