Switching on type with a generic return type

Question

I\'m working on making EF easier to unit test by writing some helpers that will make properties for me. I have a couple of backing fields

private Mock

        

Answer 1

If I understand your intention correctly - you can do it like this:

// no need to pass instance of T - why?
public Mock> Mocked() where T : class
{
    if (typeof(T) == typeof(Workflow)) {
        // first cast to object, then to return type to avoid compile error
        // compiler does not know mockedWorkFlows is Mock>, but you
        // know it already, because you checked type 'T'
        return (Mock>) (object) mockedWorkFlows; //cannot Workflow to T
    }
    // etc
    return null;
}

Whether it is good idea or not is a different story.