We discussed Tuples in the previous post. They give an easy to use interface, when we need only a subset of members from the class using a single function. But, what if we need to make it more implicit, without having to call a function. C#, now offers the Deconstruct function.
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public class Person
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public void Deconstruct(out string firstName, out string lastName)
{
firstName = FirstName;
lastName = LastName;
}
}
var person = new Person
{
FirstName = "John",
LastName = "Doe",
Age = 20,
EmailId = "john.doe@example.com"
};
(var firstName, var lastName) = person;
Assert.Equal("John", firstName);
Assert.Equal("Doe", lastName);
Here, since the Person class, offers the Deconstruct function with 2 variables, the object of Person class (person), can be implicitly converted to a tuple value. I believe, people who like using implicit and explicit operator would appreciate this.
Please find a sample implementation at GitHub.
References : Microsoft Docs
