Casting & Reflection

neubs007

I have to perform a cast of an object based on the type of another object. I can get it to work for one instance by coding in the objects. eg. Person p = (Person)dgi.DataItem; If I look at dgi.DataItem.getType() I can see that, in this case, it is a person object. Now what do I need to do to abstract that out so dgi.DataItem can be a different objects within my solution? I figure I can use reflection from dgi.DataItem to fill in the ???'s below, but I'm not sure how. ??? p = (???)dgi.DataItem So if dgi.DataItem.getType()... is a Dog object it would render the statement as such: Dog p =(Dog)dgi.DataItem Any Ideas?

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bilnaad21y ago
what are you planning to do with those objects? maybe there can be other strategies applied to satisfy your needs?
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neubs00721y ago
Yes, I believe I should be able to do this (somehow) using reflection.
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holy_bins21y ago
Yeah I'm a n00b, but I'm assuming you want to do it with a more efficient method than just like a switch or if or something.....right?
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