Reflection - get attribute name and value on property

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I have a class, lets call it Book with a property called Name. With that property, I have an attribute associated with it.

public class Book
{
    [Author("AuthorName")]
    public string Name
    {
        get; private set; 
    }
}

In my main method, I'm using reflection and wish to get key value pair of each attribute for each property. So in this example, I'd expect to see "Author" for attribute name and "AuthorName" for the attribute value.

Question: How do I get the attribute name and value on my properties using Reflection?

propertyinfo reflection c#
16 Answers

While the above most upvoted answers definitely work, I'd suggest using a slightly different approach in some cases.

If your class has multiple properties with always the same attribute and you want to get those attributes sorted into a dictionary, here is how:

var dict = typeof(Book).GetProperties().ToDictionary(p => p.Name, p => p.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AuthorName), false).Select(a => (AuthorName)a).FirstOrDefault());

This still uses cast but ensures that the cast will always work as you will only get the custom attributes of the type "AuthorName". If you had multiple Attributes above answers would get a cast exception.

user_110172390

I wrote this into a dynamic method since I use lots of attributes throughout my application. Method:

public static dynamic GetAttribute(Type objectType, string propertyName, Type attrType)
    {
        //get the property
        var property = objectType.GetProperty(propertyName);

        //check for object relation
        return property.GetCustomAttributes().FirstOrDefault(x => x.GetType() == attrType);
    }

Usage:

var objectRelAttr = GetAttribute(typeof(Person), "Country", typeof(ObjectRelationAttribute));

var displayNameAttr = GetAttribute(typeof(Product), "Category", typeof(DisplayNameAttribute));

Hope this helps anyone

user_2445680

Just looking for the right place to put this piece of code.

let's say you have the following property:

[Display(Name = "Solar Radiation (Average)", ShortName = "SolarRadiationAvg")]
public int SolarRadiationAvgSensorId { get; set; }

And you want to get the ShortName value. You can do:

((DisplayAttribute)(typeof(SensorsModel).GetProperty(SolarRadiationAvgSensorId).GetCustomAttribute(typeof(DisplayAttribute)))).ShortName;

Or to make it general:

internal static string GetPropertyAttributeShortName(string propertyName)
{
    return ((DisplayAttribute)(typeof(SensorsModel).GetProperty(propertyName).GetCustomAttribute(typeof(DisplayAttribute)))).ShortName;
}
user_28994160

to get attribute from enum, i'm using :

 public enum ExceptionCodes
 {
  [ExceptionCode(1000)]
  InternalError,
 }

 public static (int code, string message) Translate(ExceptionCodes code)
        {
            return code.GetType()
            .GetField(Enum.GetName(typeof(ExceptionCodes), code))
            .GetCustomAttributes(false).Where((attr) =>
            {
                return (attr is ExceptionCodeAttribute);
            }).Select(customAttr =>
            {
                var attr = (customAttr as ExceptionCodeAttribute);
                return (attr.Code, attr.FriendlyMessage);
            }).FirstOrDefault();
        }

// Using

 var _message = Translate(code);
user_13992230

If you want get property having the custom Attribute then please try the following:

IEnumerable propertyInfos = properties.GetType().GetProperties();

PropertyInfo p = propertyInfos.Where(x => x.GetCustomAttribute() != null);

user_160590610
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