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PO.Net Get Property Values of Object by Key, to any depth
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    copied!<p>I would like to be able to access the value of an object property to any depth having only the string-key of the property. Also, if possible, using collection indexing on List properties. So, If I have the string "Person.Surname" then I could get the value "Smith" from and instanciated CaseConductor object. So given some setup code like this ...</p> <pre><code>//- Load a caseConductor var caseConductor = new CaseConductor(); caseConductor.CaseID = "A00001"; // person caseConductor.Person = new Person(); caseConductor.Person.Surname = "Smith" ; caseConductor.Person.DOB = DateTime.Now ; // case note list caseConductor.CaseNoteList = new List&lt;Note&gt;(); caseConductor.CaseNoteList.Add(new Note { NoteText = "A-1" , NoteDt = DateTime.Now }); caseConductor.CaseNoteList.Add(new Note { NoteText = "B-2", NoteDt = DateTime.Now }); // I could do this ... object val = caseConductor.SomeCleverFunction("Person.Surname"); // or this ... object val = caseConductor.SomeCleverFunction("CaseNoteList[0].NoteText"); </code></pre> <p>Has anyone done this before ? Here are some setup classes ...</p> <pre><code>class Note { public Guid NoteID { get; set; } public string NoteText { get; set; } public DateTime? NoteDt { get; set; } } public class Person { public Guid PersonID { get; set; } public string Surname { get; set; } public string Forename { get; set; } public DateTime? DOB { get; set; } } class CaseConductor { public String CaseID{get;set;} public Person Person { get; set; } public List&lt;Note&gt; CaseNoteList { get; set; } } </code></pre> <p>Our use case is to iterate over a series of appropriately named content controls in a word dcoument template using open xml sdk 2, and poke values into a newly created word documents, something like this ...</p> <pre><code>List&lt;SdtElement&gt; ccList = wordprocessingDocument.MainDocumentPart.Document.Descendants&lt;SdtElement&gt;().ToList(); foreach (var cc in ccList) { string alias = cc.SdtProperties.GetFirstChild&lt;SdtAlias&gt;().Val.Value; switch (cc.GetType().Name) { case "SdtRun": SdtRun thisRun = (SdtRun)cc; //thisRun.Descendants&lt;Text&gt;().First().Text = theValueToBePoked ; break; } } </code></pre>
 

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