Can I specify my explicit type comparator inline?
So .NET 3.0/3.5 provides us with lots of new ways to query, sort, and manipulate data, thanks to all the neat functions supplied with LINQ. Sometimes, I need to compare user-defined types that don't have a built-in comparison operator. In many cases, the comparison is really simple -- something like foo1.key ?= foo2.key. Rather than creating a new IEqualityComparer for the type, can I simply specify the comparison inline using anonymous delegates/lambda functions? Something like:
var f1 = ...,
f2 = ...;
var f3 = f1.Except(
f2, new IEqualityComparer(
(Foo a, Foo b) => a.key.CompareTo(b.key)
) );
I'm pretty sure the above doesn't actually work. I just don't want to have to make something as "heavy" as a whole class just to tell the program how to compare apples to apples.
My MiscUtil library contains a ProjectionComparer to build an IComparer<T> from a projection delegate. It would be the work of 10 minutes to make a ProjectionEqualityComparer to do the same thing.
EDIT: Here's the code for ProjectionEqualityComparer:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
/// <summary>
/// Non-generic class to produce instances of the generic class,
/// optionally using type inference.
/// </summary>
public static class ProjectionEqualityComparer
{
/// <summary>
/// Creates an instance of ProjectionEqualityComparer using the specified projection.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="TSource">Type parameter for the elements to be compared</typeparam>
/// <typeparam name="TKey">Type parameter for the keys to be compared,
/// after being projected from the elements</typeparam>
/// <param name="projection">Projection to use when determining the key of an element</param>
/// <returns>A comparer which will compare elements by projecting
/// each element to its key, and comparing keys</returns>
public static ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource, TKey> Create<TSource, TKey>(Func<TSource, TKey> projection)
{
return new ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource, TKey>(projection);
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates an instance of ProjectionEqualityComparer using the specified projection.
/// The ignored parameter is solely present to aid type inference.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="TSource">Type parameter for the elements to be compared</typeparam>
/// <typeparam name="TKey">Type parameter for the keys to be compared,
/// after being projected from the elements</typeparam>
/// <param name="ignored">Value is ignored - type may be used by type inference</param>
/// <param name="projection">Projection to use when determining the key of an element</param>
/// <returns>A comparer which will compare elements by projecting
/// each element to its key, and comparing keys</returns>
public static ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource, TKey> Create<TSource, TKey>
(TSource ignored,
Func<TSource, TKey> projection)
{
return new ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource, TKey>(projection);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Class generic in the source only to produce instances of the
/// doubly generic class, optionally using type inference.
/// </summary>
public static class ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource>
{
/// <summary>
/// Creates an instance of ProjectionEqualityComparer using the specified projection.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="TKey">Type parameter for the keys to be compared,
/// after being projected from the elements</typeparam>
/// <param name="projection">Projection to use when determining the key of an element</param>
/// <returns>A comparer which will compare elements by projecting each element to its key,
/// and comparing keys</returns>
public static ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource, TKey> Create<TKey>(Func<TSource, TKey> projection)
{
return new ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource, TKey>(projection);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Comparer which projects each element of the comparison to a key, and then compares
/// those keys using the specified (or default) comparer for the key type.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="TSource">Type of elements which this comparer
/// will be asked to compare</typeparam>
/// <typeparam name="TKey">Type of the key projected
/// from the element</typeparam>
public class ProjectionEqualityComparer<TSource, TKey> : IEqualityComparer<TSource>
{
readonly Func<TSource, TKey> projection;
readonly IEqualityComparer<TKey> comparer;
/// <summary>
/// Creates a new instance using the specified projection, which must not be null.
/// The default comparer for the projected type is used.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="projection">Projection to use during comparisons</param>
public ProjectionEqualityComparer(Func<TSource, TKey> projection)
: this(projection, null)
{
}
/// <summary>
/// Creates a new instance using the specified projection, which must not be null.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="projection">Projection to use during comparisons</param>
/// <param name="comparer">The comparer to use on the keys. May be null, in
/// which case the default comparer will be used.</param>
public ProjectionEqualityComparer(Func<TSource, TKey> projection, IEqualityComparer<TKey> comparer)
{
if (projection == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("projection");
}
this.comparer = comparer ?? EqualityComparer<TKey>.Default;
this.projection = projection;
}
/// <summary>
/// Compares the two specified values for equality by applying the projection
/// to each value and then using the equality comparer on the resulting keys. Null
/// references are never passed to the projection.
/// </summary>
public bool Equals(TSource x, TSource y)
{
if (x == null && y == null)
{
return true;
}
if (x == null || y == null)
{
return false;
}
return comparer.Equals(projection(x), projection(y));
}
/// <summary>
/// Produces a hash code for the given value by projecting it and
/// then asking the equality comparer to find the hash code of
/// the resulting key.
/// </summary>
public int GetHashCode(TSource obj)
{
if (obj == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("obj");
}
return comparer.GetHashCode(projection(obj));
}
}
And here's a sample use:
var f3 = f1.Except(f2, ProjectionEqualityComparer<Foo>.Create(a => a.key));
here is a simple helper class that should do what you want
public class EqualityComparer<T> : IEqualityComparer<T>
{
public EqualityComparer(Func<T, T, bool> cmp)
{
this.cmp = cmp;
}
public bool Equals(T x, T y)
{
return cmp(x, y);
}
public int GetHashCode(T obj)
{
return obj.GetHashCode();
}
public Func<T, T, bool> cmp { get; set; }
}
you can use it like this:
processed.Union(suburbs, new EqualityComparer<Suburb>((s1, s2)
=> s1.SuburbId == s2.SuburbId));
I find providing extra helpers on IEnumerable is a cleaner way to do this.
See: this question
So you could have:
var f3 = f1.Except(
f2,
(a, b) => a.key.CompareTo(b.key)
);
If you define the extension methods properly
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