Using reflection I have an object which I need to cast into an iterable list of items (type unknown, will be object). Using the Watch window I can see my object is an array of some type as it tells me the number of elements and I can explode the tree view to see the elements themselves.
Firstly, I need to check that the object passed is some kind of array (might be List, might be object[], etc). Then I need to iterate through that array. However, I can't do the type conversion.
Here's how I'm using it (abbreviated):
private static void Example(object instance, PropertyInfo propInfo)
{
object anArray = propInfo.GetValue(instance, null);
ArrayList myList = anArray as ArrayList;
foreach (object element in myList)
{
// etc
}
}
I've tried various different casts. The above doesn't raise an exception but mylist is null when anArray actually exists and contains items. The actual instance being saved is a strongly-typed List<> but could take a limited subset of forms if necessary. But the point of the exercise is that this Example() method doesn't know the basic type of the property.