Another NameTable Question

[Colin Savage]

I am trying to work out the best way to use the NameTable class in my C#
application.

I am assuming that getting/adding a string to the nametable has the same
overheads as comparing a string normally, so I have created a class which
holds references to the atomized strings.
Is there a better way to do this? simple example below

//Class to provide "string constants"
private class MyStrings
{
public String stringA;
public String stringB;

public MyStrings(NameTable nt)
{
stringA = nt.Add("A");
stringB = nt.Add("B");
}
}

//Class to do the work
public class MyAppClass
{
private MyStrings myStrings;

//assume strings was created once somewhere else
public MyAppClass(MyStrings strings)
{
myStrings = strings
}

public object factoryMethod(XmlReader reader)
{
//reader was created using the same NameTable used with MyStrings
if (reader.LocalName == strings.stringA) return new ClassA();
if (reader.LocalName == strings.stringB) return new ClassB();
}
}

Thanks
Colin

[Oleg Tkachenko]

Colin Savage wrote:

I am trying to work out the best way to use the NameTable class in my C#
application.

I am assuming that getting/adding a string to the nametable has the same
overheads as comparing a string normally, so I have created a class which
holds references to the atomized strings.
Is there a better way to do this? simple example below

Looks as the best as possible to me. Preloaded atomized string and
reader built on the same NameTable - I believe nothing more can be done.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[SQL Server Development Team [MSFT]]

Since the XmlReader object and the MyStrings object in your code share the
same nametable you can use a object reference comparison instead of String
comparison.
Something like,
if (( (object)reader.LocalName ) == ( (object)strings.stringA )) return new
ClassA();

Thanks
Srikanth.
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I am trying to work out the best way to use the NameTable class in my C#
application.

I am assuming that getting/adding a string to the nametable has the same
overheads as comparing a string normally, so I have created a class which
holds references to the atomized strings.
Is there a better way to do this? simple example below

//Class to provide "string constants"
private class MyStrings
{
public String stringA;
public String stringB;

public MyStrings(NameTable nt)
{
stringA = nt.Add("A");
stringB = nt.Add("B");
}
}

//Class to do the work
public class MyAppClass
{
private MyStrings myStrings;

//assume strings was created once somewhere else
public MyAppClass(MyStrings strings)
{
myStrings = strings
}

public object factoryMethod(XmlReader reader)
{
//reader was created using the same NameTable used with MyStrings
if (reader.LocalName == strings.stringA) return new ClassA();
if (reader.LocalName == strings.stringB) return new ClassB();

}

Thanks
Colin

[Oleg Tkachenko]

SQL Server Development Team [MSFT] wrote:

Since the XmlReader object and the MyStrings object in your code share the
same nametable you can use a object reference comparison instead of String
comparison.
Something like,
if (( (object)reader.LocalName ) == ( (object)strings.stringA )) return new
ClassA();

Which is exactly the same as
if (reader.LocalName == strings.stringA ) return new ClassA();

because the first thing String comparison does is above object comparison.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel