Hi,

If the next verison of LLBLGen has code like this...

 EntityCollection<CustomerEntity> c = new EntityCollection<CustomerEntity>();

How would I create a collection if I didn't know the type until runtime?

Cheers,

I.

Good point! I'll make sure that's possible. Sometimes new features like generics can make you overlook the obvious things which also have to be possible.

On second thought, you could of course do: EntityCollection<IEntity> c = new EntityCollection<IEntity>();

Though if that doesn't work as planned, it will be possible in another way so you can set the type at runtime so you can use the entitycollection as a generic container.

ok, glad you're considering this.

 EntityCollection<IEntity> c = new EntityCollection<IEntity>();

I don't see how this could work. In the current version of LLBLGen you have to supply a factory method so that, I believe, the collection knows how to create an instance of the objects it contains.

With..

class EntityCollection<K>

..then you can, of course, just call...

new K();

But you can't instantiate an instance of an interface.

True, but I can add a method to the interface which produces the factory

In fact, that's how I'll do it, not new K();, as the creation of a new instance is done in the fetch core, not in the entity collection itself (only in databinding scenarios).