Tapping with C#3.0 February 6, 2008
Posted by James Webster in : development, dotnet , trackbackInfoQ have an article up about Ruby 1.9’s new ‘tap’ method. A little similar in concept to Unix’s ‘tee’ command it allows Rubyists to inject an arbitrary block of code into a method call chain in order to inspect or mutate the variable. Its useful in debugging apparently.
Hmmm… should be easy enough to replicate that in C#3.0. First we need an extension method on any type…
public static T Tap<T>(this T objectToTap, Action<T> tapAction) {
tapAction(objectToTap);
return objectToTap;
}
In usage…
StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder("A good candidate because it's methods chain.");
buf.Append("One. ").Append("Two. ")
.Tap((x) => Console.WriteLine("Tapping! " + x.ToString()))
.Append("Three. ").Append("Four. ");
Console.WriteLine("Not tapping! " + buf.ToString());
Which results in console output…
Tapping! A good candidate because it's methods chain. One. Two. Not tapping! A good candidate because it's methods chain. One. Two. Three. Four.
What do you think? Potentially useful or a gross violation of the Law of Demeter?
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