Xtykutl

I have two classes, consider the following:

public class Class1

{

   public int CustomerID;

   public int DriverID;

   public int EmployeeID;

}



public class Class2

{

   public int CustomerID;

   public int DriverID;

   public int EmployeeID;      

}

I want to then write a method which does something with either one of these methods, but my program won't know which one until runtime.

public void DoSomething(???)

{

  if (???.GetType() == typeof(Class1)

  {

    //do stuff related to class 1

  }



  if (???.GetType() == typeof(Class2)

  {

    //do stuff related to class 2

  }

}

How am I able to pass one of those classes into that method, considering they are different types? I then need to check the type to perform separate actions.

The way this will be used in my application is that Class1 and Class2 will be linked to a ParentClass, and on that ParentClass it will dictate which linked object should be used (either Class1 and Class2) e.g. ParentClass will have a bool on it, and if bool is true, then use Class1 else use Class2, and depending on that boolean is what I want to pass into that method. I don't want to create a separate method as I think it will be best to do this.

I'm not sure how to achieve this.

Use a base class with the properties in common.

The classes derive from it with an implementation of the method DoSomeThing.
Then, your method DoSomeThing is called autotomatically for the right type,

public abstract BaseClass

{

   public int CustomerID;

   public int DriverID;

   public int EmployeeID;  

   public abstract void DoSomeThing();    

}



public abstract Class1

{

   public override void DoSomeThing(){}

}



public abstract Class

{

   public override void DoSomeThing(){}

}



public void DoSomething(BaseClass class)

{

    class.DoSomeThing();

}

Just my preference is to do interfaces over inheritance if I can. Allows to be a little more flexible I think in the future.

public static void DoSomething(IDoSomething MyObject)

{

    MyObject.DoSomeMethod();

 }

 interface IDoSomething

 {

    void DoSomeMethod();

 }

 public class Class1 : IDoSomething

 {

    public int CustomerID;

    public int DriverID;

    public int EmployeeID;



     public void DoSomeMethod()

     {

            throw new NotImplementedException();

     }

 }



 public class Class2 : IDoSomething

 {

    public int CustomerID;

    public int DriverID;

    public int EmployeeID;



    public void DoSomeMethod()

    {

      throw new NotImplementedException();

    }

 }

you could try somehing like this:

    public static  void DoSomething(object MyObject)

    {

        if (MyObject.GetType() == typeof(Class1))

        {

            //   (MyObject as Class1 )

        }



        if (MyObject.GetType() == typeof(Class2))

        {

            //   (MyObject as Class2 )

        }

    }