I'm using reflection to retrieve all of the public properties of a poco class

poco e.g.

 public class MetaData
    {
        [ExplicitKey]
        public string Id{ get; set; }

        
        public enum DataType
        {
            T1 = 1,
            T2 = 2,
            T3 = 3
        }
        
        public DataType MyDataType { get; private set; } //<- enum
        
        public string ParentFolder { get; private set; }

        public string FileName { get; private set; }
...

Using reflection to obtain all of those properties seems to always exclude the enum property: e.q.

var publicPropertiesUsed = metaData.GetType().GetProperties().Where(x => x.PropertyType.IsPublic);

When interrogating the enum property, IsPublic is false.

What's the correct way to obtain all the public properties through reflection?

CodePudding user response：

Your DataType enum is nested within your MetaData class. In such case IsPublic returns false.

From the IsPublic documentation

true if the Type is declared public and is not a nested type; otherwise, false.

Either move that enum outside that MetaData class or use IsVisible instead of IsPublic.

From the IsVisble documentation

true if the current Type is a public type or a public nested type such that all the enclosing types are public; otherwise, false.

var publicPropertiesUsed = 
    metaData.GetType()
        .GetProperties()
        .Where(x => x.PropertyType.IsVisble);