On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Gábor Kozár <[email protected]> wrote:
> It doesn't matter if I have 3 methods or 1; the point is that I need this:
>
> TypeDefinition ResolvePreserve(TypeReference)
Indeed proper design doesn't matter if you want something that can't
possibly exist.
> And a GenericInstanceMethod cannot be cast to TypeDefinition, only
> TypeReference, but I don't need a TypeReference. I need a TypeDefinition.
> What I have seen so far lets me think that it is impossible (by design) for
> a TypeDefinition (or any Definition) to have generic arguments. Or can it be
> solved?
ResolvePreserve can only return a TypeReference because it's the root
of all types. Let's try to make it simple for you.
In your assembly, you have a TypeReference to List<string>.
What you actually have is:
GenericInstanceType
ElementType: TypeReference(List`1)
GenericArguments: TypeReference(String)
Now with ResolvePreserved you want:
GenericInstanceType
ElementType: TypeDefinition(List`1)
GenericArguments: TypeDefinition(String)
And the hierarchy of GenericInstanceType is: TypeReference ->
TypeSpecification -> GenericInstanceType.
So ResolvePreserve needs to return a TypeReference for all
TypeSpecifications, such as arrays. And it's ok, you can write:
TypeReference ResolvePreserved (this TypeReference self);
TypeReference resolved = type.ResolvePreserved ();
if (resolved.IsDefinition) {
TypeDefinition definition = (TypeDefinition) resolved;
// ...
}
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