I have a class called products. In my maintenance application I am instantiating two versions of this class.
mProduct is used in all transactions and changes
mProduct_original is loaded at the same time as the original mProduct is instantiated.
I would like to know if there is a simple way to iterate through the properties of each and compare them for changes?
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--Eric Cathell, MCSA 8 1504
ok I have figured out so far I can do this with reflection. here is what I have so far.
Private Sub checkForChanges(ByVal pType As Type) ', ByVal poType As Type)
Dim productProperties() As PropertyInfo = pType.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.Instance)
Dim PropertyItem As PropertyInfo
For Each PropertyItem In productProperties
With PropertyItem
Debug.WriteLine(PropertyItem.Name)
debug.WriteLine(mproduct.property
End With
Next
End Sub
I got this far with an article from O'reilly. Now how do I use the propertyitem.name to tie in with the actual class property? In otherwords, If propertyname is Customername who do I use that to access product.customername's value so that I can compare it to product_original.customername?
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--Eric Cathell, MCSA
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message news:uZ****************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
I have a class called products. In my maintenance application I am instantiating two versions of this class.
mProduct is used in all transactions and changes
mProduct_original is loaded at the same time as the original mProduct is instantiated.
I would like to know if there is a simple way to iterate through the properties of each and compare them for changes?
--
--Eric Cathell, MCSA
IMHO, the best thing to do would be to have you class implement the
IComparable interface and then write the code to compare the two objects
and return the results.
Hope this helps,
Brian Swanson
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message
news:ec******@nospam.mountaire.com: I have a class called products. In my maintenance application I am instantiating two versions of this class.
mProduct is used in all transactions and changes mProduct_original is loaded at the same time as the original mProduct is instantiated.
I would like to know if there is a simple way to iterate through the properties of each and compare them for changes?
-- --Eric Cathell, MCSA
everything I find on icomparable shows it only as a method for sorting data.
How would I use it to compare the differences in the properties of the
Product object?
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--Eric Cathell, MCSA
"Brian Swanson" <pu*******@gREMOVETHISmail.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... IMHO, the best thing to do would be to have you class implement the IComparable interface and then write the code to compare the two objects and return the results.
Hope this helps, Brian Swanson
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message news:ec******@nospam.mountaire.com: I have a class called products. In my maintenance application I am instantiating two versions of this class.
mProduct is used in all transactions and changes mProduct_original is loaded at the same time as the original mProduct is instantiated.
I would like to know if there is a simple way to iterate through the properties of each and compare them for changes?
-- --Eric Cathell, MCSA
Having a class implement IComparable gives it a "CompareTo" method which
can takes an object as a parameter, you then compare the current
instance of your class (that was used to run CompareTo) to the instance
that was passed as a parameter.
I'll post an example if you need it, just let me know...
Hope this helps,
Brian Swanson
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message
news:ec******@nospam.mountaire.com: everything I find on icomparable shows it only as a method for sorting data. How would I use it to compare the differences in the properties of the Product object?
-- --Eric Cathell, MCSA "Brian Swanson" <pu*******@gREMOVETHISmail.com> wrote in message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl... IMHO, the best thing to do would be to have you class implement the IComparable interface and then write the code to compare the two objects
and return the results.
Hope this helps, Brian Swanson
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message news:ec******@nospam.mountaire.com: I have a class called products. In my maintenance application I am instantiating two versions of this class.
mProduct is used in all transactions and changes mProduct_original is loaded at the same time as the original mProduct is instantiated.
I would like to know if there is a simple way to iterate through the properties of each and compare them for changes?
-- --Eric Cathell, MCSA
hmmm, I dont think that will still work because I am trying to compare the Properties of the class to see if they have been changed... here is some more code hope it helps...
mProduct = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location)
mProduct_Original = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location)
populateProductFields(mProduct)
This first bit creates 2 new product objects. The populateproductfields populates text fields and boxes with the information on that product.
When the user moves off this particular product I need to verify that no changes were made. The easiest way for me to do this is to compare the properties of both product objects to see if they are different.
there are 45 or so properties of the product class that need to be compared. If I understand you right if I compare the 2 alone it will still work?
ie
private function CompareTo(by val obj as object) as integer implements icomparable.compareto
dim other as product=ctype(obj,product)
if me=other then return 0 else return 1
end function
Is that what you mean?
Eric
Sorry if I wasn't clear on this...You'll still have to compare the
individual properties in your "CompareTo" code, I was just suggesting
that you use the IComparable interface as a place to implement that
code.
Sorry for the confusion..
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message
news:ec******@nospam.mountaire.com: hmmm, I dont think that will still work because I am trying to compare the Properties of the class to see if they have been changed... here is some more code hope it helps...
mProduct = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location)
mProduct_Original = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location) populateProductFields(mProduct) This first bit creates 2 new product objects. The populateproductfields populates text fields and boxes with the information on that product. When the user moves off this particular product I need to verify that no changes were made. The easiest way for me to do this is to compare the properties of both product objects to see if they are different.
there are 45 or so properties of the product class that need to be compared. If I understand you right if I compare the 2 alone it will still work?
ie private function CompareTo(by val obj as object) as integer implements icomparable.compareto dim other as product=ctype(obj,product) if me=other then return 0 else return 1 end function
Is that what you mean? Eric
no worries. Then we are back to reflection. I can get all the property names
from reflection, In fact I already have that code done. Do you know how I
can use that information to test the properties of the specific instances?
Dim productProperties() As PropertyInfo =
pType.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public Or BindingFlags.Instance)
'Dim oProductProperties() As PropertyInfo =
poType.GetProperties(BindingFlags.GetProperty)
Dim PropertyItem As PropertyInfo
For Each PropertyItem In productProperties
With PropertyItem
Debug.WriteLine(PropertyItem.Name)
if mproduct.propertyitem=mOriginalProduct.propertyite m then
isDifferent=true
End With
Next
of course propertyitem doesnt work...do you know how I could use it to make
it work?
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--Eric Cathell, MCSA
"Brian Swanson" <pu*******@gREMOVETHISmail.com> wrote in message
news:us**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... Sorry if I wasn't clear on this...You'll still have to compare the individual properties in your "CompareTo" code, I was just suggesting that you use the IComparable interface as a place to implement that code.
Sorry for the confusion..
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message news:ec******@nospam.mountaire.com:
hmmm, I dont think that will still work because I am trying to compare the Properties of the class to see if they have been changed... here is some more code hope it helps...
mProduct = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location)
mProduct_Original = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location) populateProductFields(mProduct) This first bit creates 2 new product objects. The populateproductfields populates text fields and boxes with the information on that product. When the user moves off this particular product I need to verify that no changes were made. The easiest way for me to do this is to compare the properties of both product objects to see if they are different.
there are 45 or so properties of the product class that need to be compared. If I understand you right if I compare the 2 alone it will still work?
ie private function CompareTo(by val obj as object) as integer implements icomparable.compareto dim other as product=ctype(obj,product) if me=other then return 0 else return 1 end function
Is that what you mean? Eric
I found the information I was looking for..if you are interested here it
is...
myClass.GetType.GetProperty("PropertyName").getval ue(myclass,nothing)
that will return the value of that property. You can then use the following
code to loop through the properties of your class...
For Each PropertyItem In productProperties
With PropertyItem
end with
next
--
--Eric Cathell, MCSA
"Brian Swanson" <pu*******@gREMOVETHISmail.com> wrote in message
news:us**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... Sorry if I wasn't clear on this...You'll still have to compare the individual properties in your "CompareTo" code, I was just suggesting that you use the IComparable interface as a place to implement that code.
Sorry for the confusion..
"ECathell" <ec******@nospam.mountaire.com> wrote in message news:ec******@nospam.mountaire.com:
hmmm, I dont think that will still work because I am trying to compare the Properties of the class to see if they have been changed... here is some more code hope it helps...
mProduct = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location)
mProduct_Original = New Mountaire.Database.Product(txtPLUnumber.Text, mCurrentFacility.Location) populateProductFields(mProduct) This first bit creates 2 new product objects. The populateproductfields populates text fields and boxes with the information on that product. When the user moves off this particular product I need to verify that no changes were made. The easiest way for me to do this is to compare the properties of both product objects to see if they are different.
there are 45 or so properties of the product class that need to be compared. If I understand you right if I compare the 2 alone it will still work?
ie private function CompareTo(by val obj as object) as integer implements icomparable.compareto dim other as product=ctype(obj,product) if me=other then return 0 else return 1 end function
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