Object.LiteralWriter 2.0.1

ObjectLiteralWriter

Convert arbitrary .NET objects into strings containing their construction literal in C#

Library is available on NuGet https://www.nuget.org/packages/ObjectLiteralWriter/

Ever had a case when you need to prepare data for a unit test, you have suitable object during runtime (i.e. you got if from DB) and you need to produce its literal for use in that test? ObjectLiteralWriter solves this problem.

It will handle primitive values and built-in types, complex classes, nested objects, collections, tuples, etc...

use your editor of choice to format resulting code

var subj = new object[]
{
    new Test1()
    {
        Foo = 1.1m,
        Bar = null
    },
    null,
    1,
    2D,
    3M,
    true,
    new object(),
};

var literal = new ObjectLiteralWriter().GetLiteral(subj);

/*
@"new Object[]
{
new Test1()
{
Foo = 1.1M,
Bar = null,
},
null,
1,
2D,
3M,
true,
new object(),
}"*/

var subj = new Test1[]
{
    new Test1()
    {
        Foo = 1.1m,
        Bar = new Test1()
        {
            Foo = -3.3m
        }
    }
    ,
    null
};

var literal = new ObjectLiteralWriter().GetLiteral(subj);

/*
@"new Test1[]
{
new Test1()
{
Foo = 1.1M,
Bar = new Test1()
{
Foo = -3.3M,
Bar = null,
},
},
null,
}");
*/