Dictionary of Action Delegates

Question

I have object XML serialized messages coming into a class called MessageRouter. The XML contains the Type name it it was serialized from, a

Answer 1

I am not sure that this completely answers your question, but here is a class I wrote that will accomplish what you want. I couldn't tell if you want your Action delegate to take a typed object or not, but in your pseudo code, you pass it an "object" to deserialize so I wrote my class accordingly and it therefore does not use generics:

public delegate void Action(object o);

public class DelegateDictionary {
    private IDictionary _dictionary = new Hashtable();

    public void Register(Action action) {
        _dictionary[typeof(T)] = action;
    }

    public Action Get() {
        return (Action)_dictionary[typeof(T)];
    }

    public static void MyFunc(object o) {
        Console.WriteLine(o.ToString());
    }

    public static void Run() {
        var dictionary = new DelegateDictionary();
        dictionary.Register(MyFunc);
        // Can be converted to an indexer so that you can use []'s
        var stringDelegate = dictionary.Get();
        stringDelegate("Hello World");
    }
}

I believe this will accomplish what you want.