Object or Array to Dynamic in C#
January 4, 2015 ยท View on GitHub
/*
* based on Jorge Fioranelli's code..
* http://blog.jorgef.net/2011/06/converting-any-object-to-dynamic.html
*/
public static class Extensions
{
public static dynamic ToDynamic(this object value)
{
if (value.IsListOrArray ()) {
var list = new List<ExpandoObject> ();
IEnumerable enumerable = value as IEnumerable;
foreach (object o in enumerable) {
list.Add (o.ToDynamic ());
}
return (dynamic) list;
}
IDictionary<string, object> expando = new ExpandoObject ();
foreach (PropertyDescriptor property in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(value.GetType())) {
expando.Add (property.Name, property.GetValue (value));
}
return (dynamic) expando;
}
public static bool IsListOrArray(this object value)
{
if(value is IList && value.GetType().IsGenericType) {
return true;
}
if (value.GetType().IsArray) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
}