https://github.com/dadhi/csharptypeprinter

Prints System.Type object as a valid C# literal, e.g. typeof(A<X>.B<Y>.C) as a "A<X>.B<Y>.C"
https://github.com/dadhi/csharptypeprinter

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Prints System.Type object as a valid C# literal, e.g. typeof(A<X>.B<Y>.C) as a "A<X>.B<Y>.C"

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dadhi/csharptypeprinter
• Owner: dadhi
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-09-14T10:07:10.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-15T13:19:55.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-19T10:28:07.202Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: automation, code-generation, csharp, dotnet, happiness, pretty-print, reflection, to-string, type
• Language: C#
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• Size: 25.4 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# CSharpTypePrinter

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Targets **.NET Standard 2.0**

Prints a `System.Type` object as a valid C# literal, e.g. prints `typeof(A.B.C)` as a `"A.B.C"`

It happens that the code for this is the complex pile of details especially if we talk about nested generics.

So I wanted to automate it and get and the robust implementation. A similar code is used Today by three of my projects: [DryIoc](https://github.com/dadhi/DryIoc), [FastExpressionCompiler](https://github.com/dadhi/FastExpressionCompiler), [ImTools](https://github.com/dadhi/ImTools).

The library contains a single extension method: 

```cs

public static class TypePrinter 

{

    public static string ToCSharpCode(this Type type,

        bool stripNamespace = false, 

        Func printType = null, 

        bool printGenericTypeArgs = false) 

        { 

            //:-)

        }

}

```

The options include:

- `stripNamespace` self explanatory.

- `printType` function may configure the final result given the input type and the output string.

- `printGenericTypeArgs` if set to true will output open-generic type as `Blah` instead of `Blah<>`. The default value is false because of my own use-case of the type inside the `typeof()` where `typeof(Blah<>)` is the valid code and the `typeof(Blah)` is not.

Happy coding!