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JBntis
JBntis

Reputation: 79

Passing value into an entity by direct string reference

I know it sounds a bit foggy so ill provide coded explanation.

Lets say I have an entity:

   public class Times
    {
        public int TimesId { get; set; }
        public int DateRange { get; set; }
        public String Days { get; set; }

    }

And an action with returned values. I want to set a property inside of my entity according to the "name" value that have passed to the action:

public JsonResult SaveValues(string name, int value)
{
    //lets say: name = "TimesId" 

    times t = new times;
    // t.name = should refer to t.TimesId and used to insert values like t.TimesId
    t.name = value; // what I'm trying to acheive
}

Is it possible to do this kind of reference directly?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 86

Answers (2)

cuongle
cuongle

Reputation: 75326

Is it possible to do this kind of reference directly?

Yes, you can use reflection:

typeof(times).GetProperty(name).SetValue(t, value)

Upvotes: 2

Mathew Thompson
Mathew Thompson

Reputation: 56459

It is possible, using reflection, by doing:

Times t = new Times();
typeof(Times).GetProperty(name).SetValue(t, value);

Realistically though, wouldn't you be better off just having your SaveValues taking a Times object as it's parameter? Then you can fill it yourself and save the reflection.

Upvotes: 6

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