c# - string to variable name

Question

I have class(Customer) which holds more than 200 string variables as property. I'm using method with parameter of key and value. I trying to supply key and value from xml file. For this, value has to be substituted by Customer class's property(string variables).

ie

Customer
{
  public string Name{return _name};

  public string Address{return _address};
}


CallInput
{
  StringTempelate tempelate = new StringTempelate();
  foreach(item in items)
  tempelate .SetAttribure(item.key, item.Value -->   //Say this value is Name, so it has to substitute Customer.Name
}

is it possible?

Answer 1

You can use reflection to set the properties 'by name'.

using System.Reflection;
...
myCustomer.GetType().GetProperty(item.Key).SetValue(myCustomer, item.Value, null);

You can also read the properties with GetValue, or get a list of all property names using GetType().GetProperties(), which returns an array of PropertyInfo (the Name property contains the properties name)