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-// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
-// Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
-// http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-using System;
-using System.Reflection;
-
-namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers.FieldAccess {
-
- /// <summary>
- /// The methods in this class are somewhat evil, and should not be tampered with lightly.
- /// Basically they allow the creation of relatively weakly typed delegates from MethodInfos
- /// which are more strongly typed. They do this by creating an appropriate strongly typed
- /// delegate from the MethodInfo, and then calling that within an anonymous method.
- /// Mind-bending stuff (at least to your humble narrator) but the resulting delegates are
- /// very fast compared with calling Invoke later on.
- /// </summary>
- internal static class ReflectionUtil {
-
- /// <summary>
- /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given method and then return
- /// the result as an object.
- /// </summary>
- public static Func<T, object> CreateUpcastDelegate<T>(MethodInfo method) {
-
- // The tricky bit is invoking CreateCreateUpcastDelegateImpl with the right type parameters
- MethodInfo openImpl = typeof(ReflectionUtil).GetMethod("CreateUpcastDelegateImpl");
- MethodInfo closedImpl = openImpl.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(T), method.ReturnType);
- return (Func<T, object>) closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method });
- }
-
- /// <summary>
- /// Method used solely for implementing CreateUpcastDelegate. Public to avoid trust issues
- /// in low-trust scenarios, e.g. Silverlight.
- /// TODO(jonskeet): Check any of this actually works in Silverlight...
- /// </summary>
- public static Func<TSource, object> CreateUpcastDelegateImpl<TSource, TResult>(MethodInfo method) {
- // Convert the reflection call into an open delegate, i.e. instead of calling x.Method()
- // we'll call getter(x).
- Func<TSource, TResult> getter = (Func<TSource, TResult>)Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func<TSource, TResult>), method);
-
- // Implicit upcast to object (within the delegate)
- return delegate(TSource source) { return getter(source); };
- }
-
-
- /// <summary>
- /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given method after casting the parameter
- /// down from object to the required parameter type.
- /// </summary>
- public static Action<T, object> CreateDowncastDelegate<T>(MethodInfo method) {
- MethodInfo openImpl = typeof(ReflectionUtil).GetMethod("CreateDowncastDelegateImpl");
- MethodInfo closedImpl = openImpl.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(T), method.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType);
- return (Action<T, object>) closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method });
- }
-
- public static Action<TSource, object> CreateDowncastDelegateImpl<TSource, TParam>(MethodInfo method) {
- // Convert the reflection call into an open delegate, i.e. instead of calling x.Method(y) we'll
- // call Method(x, y)
- Action<TSource, TParam> call = (Action<TSource, TParam>) Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Action<TSource, TParam>), method);
-
- return delegate(TSource source, object parameter) { call(source, (TParam)parameter); };
- }
-
- /// <summary>
- /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given method after casting the parameter
- /// down from object to the required parameter type.
- /// </summary>
- public static Action<T, object> CreateDowncastDelegateIgnoringReturn<T>(MethodInfo method) {
- MethodInfo openImpl = typeof(ReflectionUtil).GetMethod("CreateDowncastDelegateIgnoringReturnImpl");
- MethodInfo closedImpl = openImpl.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(T), method.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType, method.ReturnType);
- return (Action<T, object>)closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method });
- }
-
- public static Action<TSource, object> CreateDowncastDelegateIgnoringReturnImpl<TSource, TParam, TReturn>(MethodInfo method) {
- // Convert the reflection call into an open delegate, i.e. instead of calling x.Method(y) we'll
- // call Method(x, y)
- Func<TSource, TParam, TReturn> call = (Func<TSource, TParam, TReturn>)
- Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func<TSource, TParam, TReturn>), method);
-
- return delegate(TSource source, object parameter) { call(source, (TParam)parameter); };
- }
-
- /// <summary>
- /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given static method and cast the result up to IBuilder.
- /// </summary>
- public static Func<IBuilder> CreateStaticUpcastDelegate(MethodInfo method) {
- MethodInfo openImpl = typeof(ReflectionUtil).GetMethod("CreateStaticUpcastDelegateImpl");
- MethodInfo closedImpl = openImpl.MakeGenericMethod(method.ReturnType);
- return (Func<IBuilder>)closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method });
- }
-
- public static Func<IBuilder> CreateStaticUpcastDelegateImpl<T>(MethodInfo method) {
- Func<T> call = (Func<T>)Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func<T>), method);
- return delegate { return (IBuilder)call(); };
- }
- }
-}