Expression to create a Tuple with variable number of generic type arguments

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I'm trying to build an expression for creating a generic Tuple<> instance with a variable number of generic type arguments.

The idea for the generated Tuple<> instance is to dynamically create a composite key value for entity types based on properties that have a KeyAttribute on it. The composite key would then be used as a key in a Dictionary<object, TEntity>. So the lambda expression should be built for a certain entity type and the lambda would be called, passing an instance of TEntity to get back a composite key in the form of a Tuple<>.

Example entity model

public class MyEntityModel
{
    [Key]
    public string Key1 { get; set; }
    [Key]
    public Guid Key2 { get; set; }
    public int OtherProperty { get; set; }
}

What expression should do

public Func<MyEntityModel, object> BuildKeyFactory()
{
    // This is how the LambdaExpression should look like, but then for a generic entity type instead of fixed to MyEntityModel
    return new Func<MyEntityModel, object>(entity => new Tuple<string, Guid>(entity.Key1, entity.Key2));
}

But of course the entity model needs to be a generic type.

What I have so far

public Func<TEntity, object> BuildKeyFactory<TEntity>()
{
    var entityType = typeof(TEntity);

    // Get properties that have the [Key] attribute
    var keyProperties = entityType.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public)
        .Where(x => x.GetCustomAttribute(typeof(KeyAttribute)) != null)
        .ToArray();

    var tupleType = Type.GetType($"System.Tuple`{keyProperties.Length}");
    if (tupleType == null) throw new InvalidOperationException($"No tuple type found for {keyProperties.Length} generic arguments");

    var keyPropertyTypes = keyProperties.Select(x => x.PropertyType).ToArray();
    var tupleConstructor = tupleType.MakeGenericType(keyPropertyTypes).GetConstructor(keyPropertyTypes);
    if (tupleConstructor == null) throw new InvalidOperationException($"No tuple constructor found for key in {entityType.Name} entity");

    // The following part is where I need some help with...
    var newTupleExpression = Expression.New(tupleConstructor, keyProperties.Select(x => ????));

    return Expression.Lambda<Func<TEntity, object>>(????).Compile();
}

As you can see, I'm not able to figure out how I need to create property expressions for passing to the Expression.New() call (probably something with Expression.MakeMemberAccess(Expression.Property()) but don't know how to pass the TEntity instance from the lambda argument) and how I can 'chain' this with the Expression.Lambda call. Any help would be highly appreciated!

1 Answers

You are quite close.

// we need to build entity => new Tuple<..>(entity.Property1, entity.Property2...)
// arg represents "entity" above
var arg = Expression.Parameter(typeof(TEntity));
// The following part is where I need some help with...
// Expression.Property(arg, "name) represents "entity.Property1" above
var newTupleExpression = Expression.New(tupleConstructor, keyProperties.Select(c => Expression.Property(arg, c)));
return Expression.Lambda<Func<TEntity, object>>(newTupleExpression, arg).Compile();
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