Reflection

Serenity has a small set of reflection-related types in the Serenity.Reflection namespace. Most of them are internal extension points — you'll rarely use them directly, but they're worth knowing about because they power the property item system, annotation types, and the code generator.

IPropertyInfo

IPropertyInfo virtualizes property attribute access. Instead of working with a raw PropertyInfo, code can ask for attributes through this interface, which lets the framework merge attributes from multiple sources (see AttributeOrigin below):

public interface IPropertyInfo
{
    string Name { get; }
    Type PropertyType { get; }
    TAttr? GetAttribute<TAttr>(AttributeOrigin origin = AttributeOrigin.All) where TAttr : Attribute;
    IEnumerable<TAttr> GetAttributes<TAttr>(AttributeOrigin origin = AttributeOrigin.All) where TAttr : Attribute;
}

WrappedProperty

WrappedProperty is the default implementation of IPropertyInfo that wraps a PropertyInfo. It caches the property's attributes and supports the AttributeOrigin filtering.

AttributeOrigin

AttributeOrigin is a flags enum that controls where attributes are searched from when calling IPropertyInfo.GetAttribute / GetAttributes:

This is how the property item providers combine attributes from a row, its annotation types, and its based-on field into a single view. See Annotation Types and Grid Columns.

CodeWriter

CodeWriter writes formatted code to a StringBuilder with indentation support (IncreaseIndent, DecreaseIndent, Block). It's used internally by the code generator (sergen) to emit generated C#/TypeScript code.

See Also

• Annotation Types
• Grid Columns
• Forms & Editors
• Script Generation