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Samantha J T Star
Samantha J T Star

Reputation: 32828

Can someone please explain the <Func<T, bool>> in a simple way for me

I am looking at code containing:

public virtual ICollection<T> GetPk(string pk)
{
    Expression<Func<T, bool>> predicate = c => c.PartitionKey == pk;
    return this.GetAll(predicate);
}

Can someone explain the syntax of <Func<T, bool>> ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 7526

Answers (7)

Valentine Bondar
Valentine Bondar

Reputation: 139

It's additional syntax so you know what goes in and out of the function.

Func<T, bool> means: function has 1 input T and 1 output that's bool.

This is other variations of the function

Upvotes: 0

Chris McAtackney
Chris McAtackney

Reputation: 5242

For some background; prior to Func<T, TResult> (and the rest of this family) being part of the framework, you either had to explicitly define delegates or use anonymous methods.

Func and Action were added as part of the addition of lambda expressions to the language. They are the framework-defined delegates which lambda expressions are typed as, but which you as a developer can also use in place of your own custom delegate definitions.

You can get a nice history here;

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2006/10/03/lambda-expressions.aspx

Upvotes: 2

Abdul Munim
Abdul Munim

Reputation: 19217

Simply Func<T, bool> is the anonymous method signature. The first type T is the input parameter type and the second type is the return type. This is more like a method when you consider your representation:

bool AnonMethod(T arg0)
{
   return arg0.PartitionKey == pk;
}

Upvotes: 6

Digbyswift
Digbyswift

Reputation: 10410

It is confusing at first but Func<T, bool> describes a function that returns a bool and accepts a parameter as type T.

In this case, T is an object that has a PartitionKey property and this GetPk method is using the Func<T, bool> to match all the T items in the instance object which have a PartitionKey that matches the string pk.

Upvotes: 1

Thomas Levesque
Thomas Levesque

Reputation: 292615

A Func<T, bool> represents a function that takes an object of type T and returns a bool. It's commonly referred to as a "predicate", and is used to verify a condition on an object.

An Expression<Func<T, bool>> represents the abstract syntax tree of the function, i.e. its syntactic structure. It can be used to analyse the code of the function for various purposes, such as transforming it to SQL to be executed against a database.

Upvotes: 4

tbddeveloper
tbddeveloper

Reputation: 2447

I always find MSDN to be worth checking on things like this first,

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb549151.aspx

Beaten by Maheep, didn't see the post message pop-in.

Basically, you're declaring a method that matches a signature, that can then be passed in to the call to get the data.

Upvotes: 1

Maheep
Maheep

Reputation: 5605

One of the best explanation can be found at MSDN

You can use this delegate to represent a method that can be passed as a parameter without explicitly declaring a custom delegate. The encapsulated method must correspond to the method signature that is defined by this delegate. This means that the encapsulated method must have one parameter that is passed to it by value, and that it must return a value.

As for argument in your example T is the type of input parameter and bool is the return type of exacted method.

Upvotes: 5

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