Using c# Generics for a Method

bberrabah · Post by **bberrabah** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:51 am

Hello;
I want to sk you how is it possible to use Generics for a method, so i can take two types of Arguments: Adapter and RepoItemInfo.

The idea is to have

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[UserCodeMethod]
public static void CheckExistsAndSetValueG<T> (T input, String value)
{
	if (input is Adapter){
		Adapter adapter = (Adapter) input;
		CheckExistsAndSetValue(adapter, value);
	}
	if (input is RepoItemInfo){
		RepoItemInfo itemInfo = (RepoItemInfo) input;
		CheckExistsAndSetValue(itemInfo, value);
	}
}

How do you do to make this possible?

Thanks for assistance

odklizec · Post by **odklizec** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:34 am

Hi,

I believe something like this is not currently possible. Ranorex methods support only these arguments:

MehtodArguments.png

Anyway, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is to always pass elements as RepoItemInfo. This would avoid some unexpected exceptions, caused by not yet available element (at a time of calling the method). And you can always create Adapter (if needed) from RepoItemInfo object. So there is really no need to pass the element as Adapter. Yes, it may be a bit quicker to create such method, but using RepoItemInfo is much safer option. At least I believe so

bberrabah · Post by **bberrabah** » Thu Jun 07, 2018 1:40 pm

Thanks for the answer.

I finally used to create this Method,

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public static void CheckExistsAndSetValueG<T> (T input, String value) where T:RepoItemInfo, IAdapter
{
	if (input is IAdapter){
		IAdapter adapter = (IAdapter) input;
		CheckExistsAndSetValue(adapter, value);
	}
	if (input is RepoItemInfo){
		RepoItemInfo itemInfo = (RepoItemInfo) input;
		CheckExistsAndSetValue(itemInfo, value);
	}
}

But i think that ranorex do not allow to call such "Generic" methods form its Modules top level classes. So i'll follow your advice, thanks a lot.

Regards

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