I know there are some questions that address this, but the answers usually follow along the lines of recommending a Dictionary or Collection of parameters, which doesn't work in my situation.
I am using a library that works through reflection to do lots of clever things with objects with properties. This works with defined classes, as well as dynamic classes. I need to take this one step further and do something along these lines:
public static object GetDynamicObject(Dictionary<string,object> properties) {
var myObject = new object();
foreach (var property in properties) {
//This next line obviously doesn't work...
myObject.AddProperty(property.Key,property.Value);
}
return myObject;
}
public void Main() {
var properties = new Dictionary<string,object>();
properties.Add("Property1",aCustomClassInstance);
properties.Add("Property2","TestString2");
var myObject = GetDynamicObject(properties);
//Then use them like this (or rather the plug in uses them through reflection)
var customClass = myObject.Property1;
var myString = myObject.Property2;
}
The library works fine with a dynamic variable type, with properties assigned manually. However I don't know how many or what properties will be added beforehand.
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Thanks @Clint for the great answer:
Just wanted to highlight how easy it was to solve this using the Expando Object:
var dynamicObject = new ExpandoObject() as IDictionary<string, Object>;
foreach (var property in properties) {
dynamicObject.Add(property.Key,property.Value);
}
you could deserialize your json string into a dictionary and then add new properties then serialize it.
var jsonString = @"{}";
var jsonDoc = JsonSerializer.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>>(jsonString);
jsonDoc.Add("Name", "Khurshid Ali");
Console.WriteLine(JsonSerializer.Serialize(jsonDoc));
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