Loyc.MemoizedTypeName Class Reference

.NET Framework reflection doesn't offer complete type names for generic types such as "List<int>" (the Type.Name value of that class is "List`1"). Get fills in the gap, and also saves the computed name for fast repeated lookups. More...

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Source file:

• /Core/Loyc.Interfaces/Concrete/MemoizedTypeName.cs

Remarks

.NET Framework reflection doesn't offer complete type names for generic types such as "List<int>" (the Type.Name value of that class is "List`1"). Get fills in the gap, and also saves the computed name for fast repeated lookups.

Static Public Member Functions
static string	Get (Type?type)
	Computes a short language-agnostic name for a type, including generic parameters, e.g. GenericName(typeof(int)) is "Int32"; GenericName(typeof(Dictionary<int, string>)) is "Dictionary&lt;Int32, String>". More...
static string	NameWithGenericParams (this Type t)

Member Function Documentation

static string Loyc.MemoizedTypeName.Get ( Type?  type )

inlinestatic

Computes a short language-agnostic name for a type, including generic parameters, e.g. GenericName(typeof(int)) is "Int32"; GenericName(typeof(Dictionary<int, string>)) is "Dictionary&lt;Int32, String>".

Parameters

type	Type whose name you want

Returns

Name with generic parameters, as explained in the summary.

The result is memoized, so that the name is computed only once.