Interface ITypeParser

Provides helpers to create IType type descriptor from Type or string with type name. Also provides helpers to parse namespace names.

public interface ITypeParser

Methods

Parse type from type name. Type name should be a full type name in following format:

namespaces should be separated by dot: ns1.ns2.type
nested types should be separated by plus: ns1.ns2.type+nestest_type1+nested_type2
genric type arguments should be enclosed in <> and separated by comma: ns.type<ns.type1, ns.type2<ns.type1>, ns.type3>
open generic types allowed: ns.type<,,>
nullability (including reference types) should be indicated by ?: ns.type<T1?>?
type aliases, arrays and dynamic types not supported
generic type arguments should be real types

IType Parse(string typeName, bool valueType)

typeName string: String with type name.
valueType bool: Indicate that parsed type is value type or reference type. Applied only to main type. Nested types (array elements and generic type arguments parsed as value types).

Creates IType type descriptor from Type instance.

IType Parse(Type type)

Parse (multi-part) namespace or type name (with namespace) into collection of identifiers for each namespace/type name element.

CodeIdentifier[] ParseNamespaceOrRegularTypeName(string name, bool generated)

name string: String with namespace or type name. Type name shouldn't contain anything except namespace and namespace (no array brackets, generic argument list). Name components should be separated by dot (.).
generated bool: When true, name contains generated namespace/type name and could be modified on name conflict.

Creates IType type descriptor from T type.

IType Parse<T>()