Comments on: Cool stuff in FubuCore No. 3: Static Reflection

By: Chad Myers

Chad Myers — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:00:00 +0000

@kevdog: Ah, I see. No, that’s the opposite of what Static Reflection does. What you’re wanting is what traditional string-based reflection does. I’d just do a standard yourType.GetProperties().Where(p => p.Name.ToLower().Contains(“qualifiers”)).Each(p => p.SetValue(…));

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:52:00 +0000

I need to set every property that has “qualifiers” in its name to the same value. There are some edge cases, but that’s the base case.

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:02:00 +0000

Nice! Thanks

By: Chad Myers

Chad Myers — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:27:00 +0000

@kevdog I’m not sure what you mean by “with the substring ‘qualifiers’”. Could you please clarify that statement so I understand precisely what you mean (and therefore give you a better answer)?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:12:00 +0000

I think this library could solve a problem I’m having, but I’m still digging through things.

A particular class has several string properties with the substring “qualifiers”, is it possible to leverage this library to append a char to those fields?

Thanks for the excellent work on this series, it is much appreciated.

By: Chad Myers

Chad Myers — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:20:00 +0000

Ah,yes. That’s exactly what we do with StoryTeller in our project at Dovetail. Our StoryTeller fixtures know about our Html conventions and knows how ID’s are generated and can use those conventions. It makes it much less brittle.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:12:00 +0000

Ok, sorry about that, let me try be more coherent:
So suppose you use selenium to test your application. One of the pains in writing a maintainable test is having to worry about the component/s under test- that is their xpath/id/className/css selector… I was sort of thinking out loud whether we could use static reflection, and maybe even use the same conventions that we use when creating the html (with TextBoxFor) inside our acceptance tests to get to these text boxes, labels, drop downs etc’…

By: Chad Myers

Chad Myers — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:11:00 +0000

Not sure I follow

By: Chad Myers

Chad Myers — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:10:00 +0000

Yep. I’ve got about 10 posts total planned for the “FubuCore” series and about 12 for the “FubuMVC” series

By: nieve

nieve — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:59:00 +0000

Hey Chad,
Can this code (html conventions & tags) be then afterwards reused in your acceptance tests to get less brittle and more resharper-navigable/renameable tests?