Method to create Project Variables from c#

[lokiys]

Would be good method to create project variables from c#
Now we have to create Project variables before assign value, Would be good if could do something like

string password = Set.project.Variables["password"].Value

Or if there is no such variable in Project then it could be created automatically

thanks

 

[sandeep]

i ms tuck today in a situation like this too it will be very handy if it can be implemented +1 for this

 

[Adigen]

Would be good method to create project variables from c#
Now we have to create Project variables before assign value, Would be good if could do something like

string password = Set.project.Variables["password"].Value

Or if there is no such variable in Project then it could be created automatically

thanks

You can do it runtime, using reflection, but i don,t recommend.

string variableName = "MyVariableName"; //new variable name
string variableValue = "MyVariableValue"; //new variable value
object obj = project.Variables;
obj.GetType().GetMethod("QuickCreateVariable").Invoke(obj,new Object[]{variableName});
project.Variables[variableName].Value = variableValue;

 

[sandeep]

Hmm i think a setter would be more helpful though also thanks for the reflection code

 

[Adigen]

Hmm i think a setter would be more helpful though also thanks for the reflection code

You have no rights, to add variable directly, so the one way is to invoke non public method, if you know another way tell.

 

[Adigen]

You can use this little extention in OwnCode

public static class Extentions
{
    public static void Create(this ILocalVariables variables, string name, string value)
    {
         variables.GetType().GetMethod("QuickCreateVariable").Invoke(variables,new Object[]{name});
         variables[name].Value = value;
     }
}

Insert it after:

namespace ZennoLab.OwnCode
{

Now you can add variables using this method:

project.Variables.Create("test","1234");

 

[lokiys]

You can do it runtime, using reflection, but i don,t recommend.

string variableName = "MyVariableName"; //new variable name
string variableValue = "MyVariableValue"; //new variable value
object obj = project.Variables;
obj.GetType().GetMethod("QuickCreateVariable").Invoke(obj,new Object[]{variableName});
project.Variables[variableName].Value = variableValue;

Nice trick.
Why do not you recommend to do that ?

 

[Adigen]

Nice trick.
Why do not you recommend to do that ?

Method is not public, so it can be changed any time, and reflection have a higher cost:

Reflection requires a large amount of the type metadata to be loaded and then processed.
This can result in a larger memory overhead and slower execution.
According to tests property modification is about 2.5x-3x slower and method invocation is 3.5x-4x slower.

 

[lokiys]

Method is not public, so it can be changed any time, and reflection have a higher cost:

Reflection requires a large amount of the type metadata to be loaded and then processed.
This can result in a larger memory overhead and slower execution.
According to tests property modification is about 2.5x-3x slower and method invocation is 3.5x-4x slower.

Thanks for explanation. Anyway this feature is already implemented as project.Context["anyVariable"]

 

[Adigen]

Thanks for explanation. Anyway this feature is already implemented as project.Context["anyVariable"]

project.Context and project.Variable are not the same;
project.Context type is dynamic, but project.Variable is string
project.Variable available from standart actions, project.Context only from snippets.

And yes, for snippets project.Context is very useful