Stack overflow exception thrown from overridden property from abstract base class

Question

I have a base class with the following (trimmed for brevity) declaration:

public abstract class MyBaseClass
{    
  public int RecordId { get; private set; }
  p         


        

Answer 1

The setter in MySpecificClass shouldn't be a problem, but the getter definitely is - internally, a call to an instance of MySpecificClass's Status will be making a call to itself to see which value to return which will make a call to itself to see... well. You get the idea.

I'd use a protected class variable rather than an auto-property.

public abstract class MyBaseClass
{
    protected string _status;
    public virtual string Status
    {
        get { return _status; }
        set { _status = value; } 
    }
}

public class MySpecificClass : MyBaseClass
{
    public override string Status
    {
        get
        {
            if(_status == "something")
                return "some status";
            else
                return "some other status";
        }
        set
        {
            _status = value;
        }
    }
}