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n.Stenvang
n.Stenvang

Reputation: 507

How to get types of an attribute in an interface c#

Working with an add-in for Enterprise Architect (EA) I need to get all the different types a Test can have in EA.

By this I mean that the Test class in the EA namespace inherits from an IDualTest interface which has the get/set method for the string attribute named "Type". As a standard EA has 3 different types (Standard, Regression, Load) but it is possible to add your own types. I need to get all these types.

I believe that this is possible with reflection but that is not my strongest site so I could really use some help here. Please comment if more information is needed.

EDIT:

I've got the following code:

List<string> typeList = new List<string>();

            foreach (string type in Test.Types)
            {
                typeList.Add(type);
            }

The above code is not compileable but I hope it illustrates my needs.

 foreach (Test t in elm.Tests)
        {
            string type = t.Type; //It is this type that can be the standards from EA and your own added types
        }

// - Output

//Standard

//Regression

//Load

//CustomType1

//CustomType2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 324

Answers (1)

Geert Bellekens
Geert Bellekens

Reputation: 13784

There no use for reflection here. These values are stored in the EA database. The "proper" way of querying the API is to use Repository.GetReferencType() like this:

EA.Reference testTypes = Repository.GetReferenceList("Test");
for (short i = 0; i < testTypes.Count; i++)
{
    string testType = testTypes.GetAt(i);
}

If you need more then only the name you can query the database directly: Repository.SQLQuery("select * from t_testtypes")

Upvotes: 3

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