Hi,
I want to be able to make a Master constructor for a class which all overloads of the class constructor would call and thus if I have minor changes to something I only need to make them in the Master and not in each instance, but this does not seem to be allowed. Is there some way to do it?
The specific example is something like this:
I have created a base class "QCResult" from which "LengthQCResult " (and others) inherit. "QCResult" has a couple of attributes which "LengthQCResult " sets in constructors
public LengthQCResult( QCResultType newResult, LengthQCMethod newMethod)
: base(QCType.Len gth, newResult)
{
thisMethod = newMethod;
}
public LengthQCResult( QCResultType newResult, string newMethod)
: base(QCType.Len gth, newResult)
{
switch (newMethod)
{
case "RE":
{
thisMethod = LengthQCMethod. RestrictionDige st;
break;
}
case "PCR":
{
thisMethod = LengthQCMethod. PCR;
break;
}
default:
{
throw new ArgumentExcepti on("QC method is not recognized.");
}
}
}
public LengthQCResult( )
: base(QCType.Len gth)
{
}
I realized I need to add a new attribute (IsDatabased) to the base class, but this will be "false" by default and I don't want to have it be a parameter in all constructors for all derived classes. So, I want to make a derived Master constructor (or something like that) which has all the possible parameters and have each of the constructor overloads call the Master. It would look something like:
public LengthQCResult( QCResultType newResult, LengthQCMethod newMethod, bool isInDatabase)
: base(QCType.Len gth, newResult, isInDatabase)
{
thisMethod = newMethod;
}
And the other constructors would call it:
public LengthQCResult( QCResultType newResult, LengthQCMethod newMethod)
{
this = new LengthQCResult( newResult, newMethod, false);
}
and so forth.
When I try this, I get an error "Cannot assign to '<this>' because it is read-only".
In base classes, I don't have this problem because I can just create a Private MasterConstruct or type method which all Public constructors call, but I don't know of a way to access the base constructor in a derived class except from the definition line of a constructor. Is there a way to do that?
Thanks!
Ethan
Ethan Strauss Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist
Promega Corporation
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Madison, WI 53711
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