I need to update a property in a base class through various derived classes, from a parent class.
This is my working code I'm using in LinqPad that will demonstrate the issue better.
void Main()
{
var setting = typeof(Setting);
PropertyInfo[] props = setting.GetProperties();
string basePathValue = @"C:\my\path";
foreach (var prop in props)
{
if (prop.PropertyType.IsSubclassOf(typeof(MyBase)))
{
// ???
// string fullyQualifiedName = prop.PropertyType.FullName + ", " + assemName;
// var t = (MyBase)Type.GetType(fullyQualifiedName); // this doesn't work
// t.BasePath = basePathValue;
Console.WriteLine($"Name: {prop.PropertyType}");
/*
returns:
Name: Customer
Name: Profile
*/
// How do I update the 'BasePath' property of each class
// that inherits from MyBase and return the new
// Setting class with the updated values?
}
}
/*
The result I want is:
var customer = setting.Customer;
var customerBasePath = customer.BasePath;
// customerBasePath == "C:\my\path"
*/
}
// You can define other methods, fields, classes and namespaces here
public abstract class MyBase
{
public string BasePath { get; set; }
}
public class Customer : MyBase
{
}
public class Profile : MyBase
{
}
public class Product
{
}
public class Setting
{
public Customer Customer { get; set; }
public Profile Profile { get; set; }
public Product Product { get; set; }
}
I need to update the BasePath property in both the Customer and Profile classes, and then get an instance of the Setting class with the BasePath property values set.
I think it needs to be done via Reflection because other class properties could be added to Setting in the future and I would need to have all the class property's BasePath properties set.
Any guidance is appreciated.
