C#

Pete Burkindine wrote:

So there's no way to use a type object as a generic param?

class Parent
{
    Dictionary<string, Child<T>> _d;

    public Parent(Type T)
    {
        _d = new Dictionary<string, Child<T>>();
    }
}

class Parent<T>
{
    Dictionary<string, Child<T>> _d;

    public Parent()
    {
        _d = new Dictionary<string, Child<T>>();
    }
}

Pete Burkindine wrote:

I am open to trying the reflection method, if you could possible provide an example...

Pete Burkindine wrote:

avoid reflection

Pete Burkindine wrote:

only Child and Parent's dictionary of Child need to know

Pete Burkindine wrote:

Consumers of the Parent access the dictionary through a property

public class ItemStore
{
    private readonly System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string,object> dic =
        new System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary<string,object>
        (
            System.StringComparer.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase
        ) ;

    public void
    Add
    (
        string Key
    ,
        object Item
    )
    {
        dic.Add ( Key , Item ) ;

        return ;
    }

    public T
    GetItem<T>
    (
        string Key
    )
    {
        return ( (T) dic [ Key ] ) ;
    }

    public bool
    Remove
    (
        string Key
    )
    {
        return ( dic.Remove ( Key ) ) ;
    }
}


ItemStore s = new ItemStore() ;

s.Add ( "name"   , "James Bond" ) ;
s.Add ( "number" , 007          ) ;

System.Console.WriteLine ( s.GetItem<string> ( "NAME"   ) ) ;
System.Console.WriteLine ( s.GetItem<int>    ( "NUMBER" ) ) ;