Question
I need to dynamically get an entity object value from string. something like this :
string s = "UserMaster";
string param = "MyUser";
object o = database.s.Find(param);
//I need o to become like object o = db.UserMaster.Find(MyUser);
Sorry I don't know the name if there's already a function to do this. Thank you for your guidance :)
Edited : Ok so here is the bigger picture :
string myString = "Hi my name is [UserMaster.Name] and my school is [SchoolMaster.SchoolName]";
Let's say I got string "[UserMaster.Name]" & "[SchoolMaster.SchoolName]", UserMaster and SchoolMaster is an entity name. UserMaster has 'Name' property and SchoolMaster has 'SchoolName' property. I need to transform "[UserMaster.Name]" to its value, let's say "MyName" and "SchoolMaster.SchoolName" to "MySchoolName".
Popular Answer
You can use Expression to dynamically create code:
static object DynamicallyGet(string name, params object[] key) {
var entityName = Expression.Parameter(typeof(string), "entityName");
var keyValue = Expression.Parameter(typeof(object[]), "keyValue");
var db = Expression.Variable(typeof(RainDB), "database");
IList<Expression> procedures = new List<Expression>();
procedures.Add(Expression.Assign(db, Expression.New(typeof(RainDB))));
var entityType = typeof(RainDB).GetProperty(name);
var callMethod = Expression.Call(Expression.MakeMemberAccess(db, entityType), entityType.PropertyType.GetMethod("Find"), keyValue);
procedures.Add(callMethod);
var body = Expression.Block(new[] { db }, procedures);
var lambda = Expression.Lambda<Func<string, object[], object>>(body, entityName, keyValue).Compile();
return lambda(name , key);
//Call Function:
DynamicallyGet("UserMaster","MyUser")
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