// 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 { /// /// 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. /// internal static class ReflectionUtil { /// /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given method and then return /// the result as an object. /// public static Func CreateUpcastDelegate(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) closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method }); } /// /// 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... /// public static Func CreateUpcastDelegateImpl(MethodInfo method) { // Convert the reflection call into an open delegate, i.e. instead of calling x.Method() // we'll call getter(x). Func getter = (Func)Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func), method); // Implicit upcast to object (within the delegate) return delegate(TSource source) { return getter(source); }; } /// /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given method after casting the parameter /// down from object to the required parameter type. /// public static Action CreateDowncastDelegate(MethodInfo method) { MethodInfo openImpl = typeof(ReflectionUtil).GetMethod("CreateDowncastDelegateImpl"); MethodInfo closedImpl = openImpl.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(T), method.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType); return (Action) closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method }); } public static Action CreateDowncastDelegateImpl(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 call = (Action) Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Action), method); return delegate(TSource source, object parameter) { call(source, (TParam)parameter); }; } /// /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given method after casting the parameter /// down from object to the required parameter type. /// public static Action CreateDowncastDelegateIgnoringReturn(MethodInfo method) { MethodInfo openImpl = typeof(ReflectionUtil).GetMethod("CreateDowncastDelegateIgnoringReturnImpl"); MethodInfo closedImpl = openImpl.MakeGenericMethod(typeof(T), method.GetParameters()[0].ParameterType, method.ReturnType); return (Action)closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method }); } public static Action CreateDowncastDelegateIgnoringReturnImpl(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 call = (Func) Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func), method); return delegate(TSource source, object parameter) { call(source, (TParam)parameter); }; } /// /// Creates a delegate which will execute the given static method and cast the result up to IBuilder. /// public static Func CreateStaticUpcastDelegate(MethodInfo method) { MethodInfo openImpl = typeof(ReflectionUtil).GetMethod("CreateStaticUpcastDelegateImpl"); MethodInfo closedImpl = openImpl.MakeGenericMethod(method.ReturnType); return (Func)closedImpl.Invoke(null, new object[] { method }); } public static Func CreateStaticUpcastDelegateImpl(MethodInfo method) { Func call = (Func)Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func), method); return delegate { return (IBuilder)call(); }; } } }