Fast access to .net fields/properties
In .NET reflection is slow... well, kinda slow. If you need access to the members of an arbitrary type, with the type and member-names known only at runtime - then it is frankly hard (especially for DLR types). This library makes such access easy and fast.
An introduction to the reasons behind fast-member can be found on my blog; example usage is simply:
var accessor = TypeAccessor.Create(type);
string propName = // something known only at runtime
while( /* some loop of data */ )
{
accessor[obj, propName] = rowValue;
}
or
// obj could be static or DLR
var wrapped = ObjectAccessor.Create(obj);
string propName = // something known only at runtime
Console.WriteLine(wrapped[propName]);
IDataReader
?
Ever needed an This is pretty common if you are doing object-mapping between an object model and ADO.NET concepts such as DataTable
or SqlBulkCopy
; loading a DataTable
(yes, some people still use it) from a sequence of typed objects can now be as easy as:
IEnumerable<SomeType> data = ...
var table = new DataTable();
using(var reader = ObjectReader.Create(data))
{
table.Load(reader);
}
(the Create
method offers parameters to control the specific members, if needed)
Or if you want to throw the data into a database as fast as humanly possible:
using(var bcp = new SqlBulkCopy(connection))
using(var reader = ObjectReader.Create(data, "Id", "Name", "Description"))
{
bcp.DestinationTableName = "SomeTable";
bcp.WriteToServer(reader);
}
Ahead of Time
Library emits IL code during runtime. Will not work in constrained Ahead of Time environments. Xamarin iOS and Unity IL2CPP are such.