C# Setting Properties using Index
- by Guazz
I have a business class that contains many properties for various stock-exchange price types. This is a sample of the class:
public class Prices
{
public decimal Today {get; set}
public decimal OneDay {get; set}
public decimal SixDay {get; set}
public decimal TenDay {get; set}
public decimal TwelveDay {get; set}
public decimal OneDayAdjusted {get; set;}
public decimal SixDayAdjusted {get; set;}
public decimal TenDayAdjusted {get; set;}
public decimal OneHundredDayAdjusted {get; set;}
}
I have a legacy system that supplies the prices using string ids to identify the price type.
E.g.
Today = "0D"
OneDay = "1D"
SixDay = "6D"
//..., etc.
Firstly, I load all the values to an IDictionary() collection so we have:
[KEY] VALUE
[0D] = 1.23456
[1D] = 1.23456
[6D] = 1.23456
...., etc.
Secondly, I set the properties of the Prices class using a method that takes the above collection as a parameter like so:
SetPricesValues(IDictionary<string, decimal> pricesDictionary)
{
// TODAY'S PRICE
string TODAY = "D0";
if (true == pricesDictionary.ContainsKey(TODAY))
{
this.Today = pricesDictionary[TODAY];
}
// OneDay PRICE
string ONE_DAY = "D1";
if (true == pricesDictionary.ContainsKey(ONE_DAY))
{
this.OneDay = pricesDictionary[ONE_DAY];
}
//..., ..., etc., for each other property
}
Is there a more elegant technique to set a large amount of properties?
Thanks,
j
