Imagine a class with many public properties. For some reason, it is impossible to refactor this class into smaller subclasses.
I'd like to add a ToString override that returns something along the lines of:
Property 1: Value of property 1\n Property 2: Value of property 2\n ...
Is there a way to do this?
I think you can use a little reflection here. Take a look at Type.GetProperties()
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private PropertyInfo[] _PropertyInfos = null;
public override string ToString()
{
if(_PropertyInfos == null)
_PropertyInfos = this.GetType().GetProperties();
var sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var info in _PropertyInfos)
{
var value = info.GetValue(this, null) ?? "(null)";
sb.AppendLine(info.Name + ": " + value.ToString());
}
return sb.ToString();
}