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WF4: How do I evaluate an expression only known at runtime?

由 ╄→гoц情女王★ 提交于 2019-12-04 14:08:03

I ended up using the following activity. It can't access the workflow's variables, instead it accepts a single argument 'Value' that can be used by the same name inside the dynamic expression. Other than that it works pretty well.

public class Evaluate<TIn, TOut> : NativeActivity<TOut>
{
    [RequiredArgument]
    public InArgument<string> ExpressionText { get; set; }

    [RequiredArgument]
    public InArgument<TIn> Value { get; set; }

    protected override void Execute(NativeActivityContext context)
    {
        var result = new ExpressionEvaluator<TIn, TOut>(ExpressionText.Get(context)).EvalWith(Value.Get(context));
        Result.Set(context, result);
    }
}

public class ExpressionEvaluator<TIn, TOut> : Activity<TOut>
{
    [RequiredArgument]
    public InArgument<TIn> Value { get; set; }

    public ExpressionEvaluator(string predicate)
    {
        VisualBasic.SetSettingsForImplementation(this, VbSettings);

        Implementation = () => new Assign<TOut>
        {
            Value = new InArgument<TOut>(new VisualBasicValue<TOut>(predicate)),
            To = new ArgumentReference<TOut>("Result")
        };
    }

    public TOut EvalWith(TIn value)
    {
        return WorkflowInvoker.Invoke(this, new Dictionary<string, object> { { "Value", value } });
    }

    private static readonly VisualBasicSettings VbSettings;

    static ExpressionEvaluator()
    {
        VbSettings = new VisualBasicSettings();
        AddImports(typeof(TIn), VbSettings.ImportReferences);
        AddImports(typeof(TOut), VbSettings.ImportReferences);
    }

    private static void AddImports(Type type, ISet<VisualBasicImportReference> imports)
    {
        if (type.IsPrimitive || type == typeof(void) || type.Namespace == "System")
            return;

        var wasAdded = imports.Add(new VisualBasicImportReference { Assembly = type.Assembly.GetName().Name, Import = type.Namespace });

        if (!wasAdded)
            return;

        if (type.BaseType != null)
            AddImports(type.BaseType, imports); 

        foreach (var interfaceType in type.GetInterfaces())
            AddImports(interfaceType, imports);

        foreach (var property in type.GetProperties())
            AddImports(property.PropertyType, imports);

        foreach (var method in type.GetMethods())
        {
            AddImports(method.ReturnType, imports);

            foreach (var parameter in method.GetParameters())
                AddImports(parameter.ParameterType, imports);

            if (method.IsGenericMethod)
            {
                foreach (var genericArgument in method.GetGenericArguments())
                    AddImports(genericArgument, imports);
            }
        }

        if (type.IsGenericType)
        {
            foreach (var genericArgument in type.GetGenericArguments())
                AddImports(genericArgument, imports);
        }
    }
}

EDIT: Updated the class to include complete assembly and namespace imports, lest you get the dreaded (and unhelpful) error message:

'Value' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.

Also, moved the ExpressionEvaluator class outside and made it public, so you can used it outside of WF, like so:

new ExpressionEvaluator<int, double>("Value * Math.PI").EvalWith(2);

Which will return:

6.28318530717959

I would suggest to use a different framework for this. One good approach is to use nCalc. http://ncalc.codeplex.com/

It can parse any expression and evaluate the result, including static or dynamic parameters and custom functions.

We use it to evaluate different kind of expressions at runtime.

If your 'predicate' is a well-known string and don't need to be an expression evaluated at runtime you surely can do something like this, throwing away the InArgument and avoid the constructor:

public class Eval<T, TResult> : Activity<TResult>
{
    public string Expression { get; set; }

    [RequiredArgument]
    public InArgument<T> Value { get; set; }

    protected override Func<Activity> Implementation
    {
        get
        {
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Expression))
            {
                return base.Implementation;
            }

            return () => new Assign<TResult>
            {
                Value = new InArgument<TResult>(new VisualBasicValue<TResult>(Expression)),
                To = new ArgumentReference<TResult>("Result")
            };
        }
        set
        {
            throw new NotSupportedException();
        }
    }
}

and call it this way:

var activity = new Eval<int, int>() { Expression = "Value + 2" };

var inputArgs = new Dictionary<string, object>()
{
    { "Value", 5 }
};

Console.WriteLine("RESULT: " + WorkflowInvoker.Invoke<int>(activity, inputArgs));

EDIT: check that even with Predicate.ExpressionText not commented, it has no effect whatsoever:

public class NativeEval<T, TResult> : NativeActivity<TResult>
{
    [RequiredArgument]
    public InArgument<string> ExpressionText { get; set; }
    [RequiredArgument]
    public InArgument<T> Value { get; set; }

    private Assign Assign { get; set; }
    private VisualBasicValue<TResult> Predicate { get; set; }
    private Variable<TResult> ResultVar { get; set; }

    protected override void CacheMetadata(NativeActivityMetadata metadata)
    {
        base.CacheMetadata(metadata);

        Predicate = new VisualBasicValue<TResult>("ExpressionText.Length");
        ResultVar = new Variable<TResult>("ResultVar");
        Assign = new Assign { To = new OutArgument<TResult>(ResultVar), Value = new InArgument<TResult>(Predicate) };

        metadata.AddImplementationVariable(ResultVar);
        metadata.AddImplementationChild(Assign);
    }

    protected override void Execute(NativeActivityContext context)
    {
        // this line, commented or not, is the same!
        Predicate.ExpressionText = ExpressionText.Get(context);
        context.ScheduleActivity(Assign, new CompletionCallback(AssignComplete));
    }

    private void AssignComplete(NativeActivityContext context, ActivityInstance completedInstance)
    {
        // the result will always be the ExpressionText.Length 
        Result.Set(context, ResultVar.Get(context));
    }
}

When you get at Execute() method changing the child implementation has no effect. The execution mode is on and the children tree cannot be altered.

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