Use template document with fieldnames embedded.

[Guy]

I'd like to embed fieldnames in a template document to be parsed in at runtime for said fieldnames.  The result would be a document with all the fieldnames replaced by the corresponding data for the currently selected records.

Ie., for HTML there would be something like 

...<td>$Customer.Name$</td>...

in the template document.

Using Regex, I'll pull out "Customer.Name".  I've looked at Customer.FieldValue<string>("Name"); but I think Customer.Select("c => c.Name") will let me use dynamic binding to avoid trying to find the type of the field and simply .ToString() on the var.

Is there any way to use the "Customer" portion of the string to select the correct object/table to use?  I'd rather not have to put if clauses into the post parser:

if (tname == "Customer")
var fvalue = Customer.Select("c => c."+fname);

perhaps something like

var fvalue = dbModel.GetTable(tname).Select("c => c."+fname);

[Guy]

Since ORM creates an object that I used as a private member of the form (with data from the current record of the table), reflection provides values:

string ReplaceValues(string inbuf)
{
    return _fieldPattern.Replace(inbuf, delegate(Match m)
    {
        FieldInfo fi = this.GetType().GetField(m.Groups[1].Value, BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
        object record = fi.GetValue(this);
        PropertyInfo pi = record.GetType().GetProperty(m.Groups[2].Value, BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public);
        object val = pi.GetValue(record, null);
        return val==null?"":val.ToString();
    });
}

[PetarP]

Hello Guy,

 I was not really able to understand your problem. Can you please share with us what are you trying to achieve exactly and at what point of time do you expect this embedding to happen?

Greetings,
Petar
the Telerik team