How to create object from parameter string?

Question

Parsing

There is a class like this

public class MyClass
    {
        private int Id { get; set; }

        private double X { get; set; }

        private double Y { get; set; }

        private double Z { get; set; }

        private string Name { get; set; }

        private bool Active { get; set; }
}

And there is an input string
0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, name, true

Is it possible to somehow create an object of the class MyClassand not convert each parameter to the appropriate data type when the constructor is called?

Answer 1

Of course it is possible. The number of values ​​must be consecutive and match the number of properties in the class.

var data = "0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, name, true";
            var myClass = MyClass.Parse(data);
            MyClass.SeeChanges(myClass);

public class MyClass
    {
        private int Id { get; set; }

        private double X { get; set; }

        private double Y { get; set; }

        private double Z { get; set; }

        private string Name { get; set; }

        private bool Active { get; set; }

        public static MyClass Parse(string data)
        {
            var myClass = new MyClass();
            var properties = data.Split(',');

            var props = myClass.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public
       |                                                BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Static);
            for (int i = 0; i < props.Length; i++)
            {
                var prop = props[i];
                var type = prop.PropertyType;
                prop.SetValue(myClass, Convert.ChangeType(properties[i], type, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture));
            }
            return myClass;
        }

        public static void SeeChanges(MyClass myClass)
        {
            var props = myClass.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public
      |                                                 BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Static);
            foreach (var prop in props)
            {
                Debug.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", prop.Name, prop.GetValue(myClass, null));
            }

        }
    }

Answer 2

No

Answer 3

Only if it is json. It can be serialized into a class.

Answer 4

Lazy: "turn" the string into json in any banal way and serialize / deserialize the resulting json (split and don't give a shit with stringBuilder in the loop, adding opening / closing brackets)
Advanced: write your own serializer / deserializer for csv )