CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As 1.0.1

.NET Standard 1.0 This package targets .NET Standard 1.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher. 
dotnet add package CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As --version 1.0.1
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As -Version 1.0.1
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As" Version="1.0.1" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
<PackageVersion Include="CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As" Version="1.0.1" />
                    


                            Directory.Packages.props
                        

                    

                
<PackageReference Include="CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As" />
                    


                            Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package. 
paket add CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As --version 1.0.1
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As, 1.0.1"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As&version=1.0.1
                    


                            Install CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As as a Cake Addin
                        

                    

                
#tool nuget:?package=CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As&version=1.0.1
                    


                            Install CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As as a Cake Tool

CLSS.ExtensionMethods.Object.As

Problem

In order to make a cast during a functional-style call chain, you can do it in 2 ways:

using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

var targetProperties1 = ((JObject)((JArray)JToken.Parse(rawJSON)
  .SelectToken(jsonPath))
  .Last
  .Properties();
var targetProperties2 = ((JToken.Parse(rawJSON)
  .SelectToken(jsonPath) as JArray)
  .Last as JObject)
  .Properties();

Both syntaxes break the flow of reading code from left to right and make logical errors from one missing or one extra parenthesis easy to miss. Typical C# programmers are not used to parse parenthesis pairs as Lisp programmers are.

Solution

This package provides As<T> extension method as a functional equivalence to the as syntax to maintain consistent LTR reading flow and be friendly to the functional syntax. The above piece of code can be rewritten as follows:

using CLSS.
using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;

var targetProperties = JToken.Parse(rawJSON)
  .SelectToken(jsonPath).As<JArray>()
  .Last.As<JObject>()
  .Properties();

Due to the limitation in the type system of C#, As<T> is limited to using reference types. Passing a value type to the type parameter will cause a compilation error. Note that this limitation is strictly for the type parameter. You can still use value types as the caller of As<T>.

using CLSS;

int number = 5;
var numberAsConvertible = number.As<IConvertible>();

As<T> has some boxing overhead. It should be used if said overhead is negligible in your code path and comprehensibility is your priority.

This package is a part of the C# Language Syntactic Sugar suite.
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Version Downloads Last updated
1.0.1 1,129 2/16/2024
1.0.0 1,934 8/1/2022

- Added language-sensitive syntax highlighting in README file.
     - Fixed a minor error in the example code in README file.