CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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ferroariel
ferroariel

Reputation: 179

C# - Using different types of object as function parameter

I´m writing a function which parses JSON and may return different types of objects. Say, I´m parsing an bird json and want to return a bird object, then a tiger json and want to get a tiger object insted.

How can I do this? Should I use a dynamic object? And, if this is the answer, HOW?

I don´t want to overload the logic on each type of object I´d want to get from it.

Thanks in advance,

Ariel

Upvotes: 1

Views: 96

Answers (2)

dvlsg
dvlsg

Reputation: 5538

Are you using JSON.NET? Generics seem to be the right answer, at any rate. Something like this:

public T CreateAnimal<T>(string json) {
    return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json);
}

Note that in order to use this, you would have to know ahead of time which type of object you would expect in the json, so you can call it like this:

Tiger t = CreateAnimal<Tiger>(tigerJson);

Upvotes: 1

Adam Caviness
Adam Caviness

Reputation: 3484

To prevent bloated code, you could instantiate your animal objects convention-based:

Activator.CreateInstance("YourAssemblyNameContainingAnimalTypes", animalString);

Upvotes: 0

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