I am looking for a C# specific , open source (or source code available) implementation of recursive, or deep, object comparison.
I currently have two graphs of live
This is actually a simple process. Using reflection you can compare each field on the object.
public static Boolean ObjectMatches(Object x, Object y)
{
if (x == null && y == null)
return true;
else if ((x == null && y != null) || (x != null && y == null))
return false;
Type tx = x.GetType();
Type ty = y.GetType();
if (tx != ty)
return false;
foreach(FieldInfo field in tx.GetFields(BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.DeclaredOnly))
{
if (field.FieldType.IsValueType && (field.GetValue(x).ToString() != field.GetValue(y).ToString()))
return false;
else if (field.FieldType.IsClass && !ObjectMatches(field.GetValue(x), field.GetValue(y)))
return false;
}
return true;
}