samedi 21 août 2021

How to create an instance of a child class with a factory builder using generics?

I am trying to create an instance of a class using factory builder from the parent.

The use case is basically a library that contains series of classes that inherit from the same class. The main goal was to reduce the amount of code in those classes.

I have an interface that contains two values, IDualValues<T>.

public interface IDualValues<T>
{
    public T FirstValue { get; }
    public T SecondValue { get; }
}

This is an example of what all the classes will look like (changing the method name).

public class Foo : IDualValues<string>
{
    public string FirstValue { get; }
    public string SecondValue { get; }

    public Foo(string firstValue, string secondValue)
    {
        FirstValue = firstValue;
        SecondValue = secondValue;
    }

    public static Foo Create(string firstValue, string secondValue)
    {
        return new Foo(firstValue, secondValue);
    }
}

My point is that I want to use the FactoryBuilder to do Foo.Create instead of a new instance directly in the client application.

The ideal scenario will have a parent class that contains all the logic:

public class DualValuesBuilder<T, CreatedType> : IDualValues<T>
where CreatedType : class, IDualValues<T>
{
    public T FirstValue { get; init; }
    public T SecondValue { get; init; }

    private DualValuesBuilder(T firstValue, T secondValue)
    {
        FirstValue = firstValue;
        SecondValue = secondValue;
    }

    public static CreatedType Create(T firstValue, T secondValue)
    {
       //Creation here
    }
}   

and the other classes will be empty classes just implementing that one:

public class Foo : DualValuesBuilder<string, Foo>
{
}

Notice that I am sending the class itself as a generic parameter to the "builder".

To Achieve my goal, I created a "helper" class to build a class that inherits from IDualValues<T>.

public class DualValuesBuilderHelper<T> : IDualValues<T>
{
    public T FirstValue { get; init;}
    public T SecondValue { get; init; }

    private DualValuesBuilderHelper(T firstValue, T secondValue)
    {
        FirstValue = firstValue;
        SecondValue = secondValue;
    }

    public static IDualValues<T> Create<ReturnType>(T developerK8SClusterValue, T octopusValue)
    where ReturnType : IDualValues<T>
    {
        return new DualValuesBuilderHelper<T>(developerK8SClusterValue, octopusValue);
    }
}

and then I updated the Create method in the class DualValuesBuilder to look like the next:

public static CreatedType Create(T firstValue, T secondValue)
{
    return (CreatedType)DualValuesBuilderHelper<T>.Create<CreatedType>(firstValue, secondValue);
}

But that is giving me an error on the casting: System.InvalidCastException: Unable to cast object of type 'DualValuesBuilderHelper1[System.String]' to type 'Foo'.`

Here there is a fiddle with the code: https://dotnetfiddle.net/IUrgr1

Yes, if I do the following works, but is not what I am trying to achieve.

Foo foo = new Foo()
{
    FirstValue = "f1",
    SecondValue = "f2"
};

note: Using the construtor also works, but I need to make it work with the Create.

Even if I create an explicit (or implicit) operator, the casting still happening.

Am I overthinking, and there is a simple way of accomplishing what I am trying to do? Or is it not possible to do?

Thanks.

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