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Created October 19, 2012 09:05
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Literal of an expression at runtime. Handy for property change notifications i.e Literal.Of(() => MyProperty)
public static class Literal
{
private static string GetMemberName(Expression expression)
{
switch (expression.NodeType)
{
case ExpressionType.MemberAccess:
var memberExpression = (MemberExpression)expression;
var supername = GetMemberName(memberExpression.Expression);
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(supername))
return memberExpression.Member.Name;
return String.Concat(supername, '.', memberExpression.Member.Name);
case ExpressionType.Call:
var callExpression = (MethodCallExpression)expression;
return callExpression.Method.Name;
case ExpressionType.Convert:
var unaryExpression = (UnaryExpression)expression;
return GetMemberName(unaryExpression.Operand);
case ExpressionType.Constant:
case ExpressionType.Parameter:
return String.Empty;
default:
throw new ArgumentException("The expression is not a member access or method call expression");
}
}
public static string Of<T>(Expression<Func<T>> expression)
{
return GetMemberName(expression.Body);
}
public static string Of(Expression<Action> expression)
{
return GetMemberName(expression.Body);
}
public static string Of<T>()
{
return typeof(T).Name;
}
}
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