Questions tagged [reflection]
Reflection is the process by which a program can observe and modify its own structure and behavior at runtime.
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Allocate managed objects in C# on the native heap
This is a pretty basic class to allocate objects from the native heap. The whole process goes as follows: allocate bytes from NativeMemory.Alloc, set the method table pointer from an existing object, ...
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Modern utility to get type name strings
This is a modernization of a very old utility I’ve had in my personal code toolbox for a while. There are two variable template constants: indi::type_name<T>:...
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Flat serialization of single-value Java records used as strong types with Gson v2.11.0
Introduction I am currently developing a REST client in Java v21 and got the foundation basically working. In my project the Immutables and Gson library are currently used. Both libraries integrate ...
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Recursively iterate over every object in an object graph looking for specific types
I have an object graph which contains two types of objects that I care about: Link objects that contain an ID and a reference to the object with that ID. ...
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Add field and value into an object by reflection
original code: import, hide some irrelevant company package ...
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Copy object without reference using reflection
Recently I was in need of a method to copy an object and pass it to a method which alters the data. Since a class is passed by reference this would alter the class in the caller which I don't want. So,...
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Readlines abstraction for Golang
I've just started learning Golang and was solving some problems which required me to read lines of text from a file. I decided to abstract away the reading part so that I can use Go's ...
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Mapping various input values to a data accumulation class
This function takes inputs from multiple different controls on a form, and maps them to values in a data accumulation class. This code was written specifically to keep logic, data, and display ...
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Simple Java IoC container for dependency injection
I have come up with a quick and simple IoC container to enable minimal dependency injection support in one of my Java projects. The container supports services with: A transient lifetime, meaning, a ...
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Best way to get an arbitrary property for a C# class?
I have close to a hundred classes where I need to get arbitrary properties from them at runtime. The calling class knows which properties it wants at run time, but not at compile time. Looking for ...
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Low Level VBA Hacking - making Private functions Public
NEW: Download demo files Not sure what to title this - essentially, inspired by RubberDuck's unit test engine, I've created a way to call private methods of standard modules in VBA. It also lets you ...
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Change arbitrary arguments of function based on their names with a decorator
I ran across an issue that proved to be more complicated than I thought: Changing an arbitrary argument of a function purely based upon its name in Python - possibly via a decorator. I tried to ...
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Setting all class members to null to destroy strong references
At work we are using Xamarin.iOS for our apps. We frequently have to fight it's disadvantages, namely it's memory leak issues where strong cyclic references keep objects alive and prevent them from ...
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Search code that performs in-memory search
This is the code I came across in our repository. This performs search in-memory and is invoked on service layer code. In our front end operators like EQUAL_TO and ...
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How to save/get different type of data with less duplicated code
description: I'm using thrift to save and get data by filter. The data have many types, and the types may increase in the future. So I use ...
