Deep Copy of a C# Object

Question

I am working on some code that is written in C#. In this app, I have a custom collection defined as follows:

public class ResultList : IEnumerable&l         


        

Answer 1

Here is something that I needed and wrote, it uses reflection to copy every property (and private ones if specified)

public static class ObjectCloner
{
    public static T Clone(object obj, bool deep = false) where T : new()
    {
        if (!(obj is T))
        {
            throw new Exception("Cloning object must match output type");
        }

        return (T)Clone(obj, deep);
    }

    public static object Clone(object obj, bool deep)
    {
        if (obj == null)
        {
            return null;
        }

        Type objType = obj.GetType();

        if (objType.IsPrimitive || objType == typeof(string) || objType.GetConstructors().FirstOrDefault(x => x.GetParameters().Length == 0) == null)
        {
            return obj;
        }

        List properties = objType.GetProperties().ToList();
        if (deep)
        {
            properties.AddRange(objType.GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic)); 
        }

        object newObj = Activator.CreateInstance(objType);

        foreach (var prop in properties)
        {
            if (prop.GetSetMethod() != null)
            {
                object propValue = prop.GetValue(obj, null);
                object clone = Clone(propValue, deep);
                prop.SetValue(newObj, clone, null);
            }
        }

        return newObj;
    }
}