Faced interesting problem. C# runtime throws "Not Supported" exception when I attempt to call a generic method constructed with TypeDelegator argument. Here is the example:
using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
public class Arg { }
public class MyTypeDelegator : TypeDelegator
{
protected override bool HasElementTypeImpl() { return false; }
}
public static class Extension
{
public static int Method<T>(this Arg arg) { return 0; }
}
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
var methodInfo = typeof(Extension).GetMethod("Method").MakeGenericMethod(new MyTypeDelegator());
// System.NotSupportedException here:
methodInfo.Invoke(new Arg(), new Object[] { });
// and here:
var call = Expression.Call(methodInfo, new Expression[] {Expression.Constant(new Arg(), typeof(Arg)) });
}
}
}
What would be a workaround or solution for this?
PS: I cannot drop MyTypeDelegator, because it serves as a type alias for dynamic soft classes, coming from 3rd party lib. Signature and implementation of real generic Method depend on the specific data stored in the MyTypeDelegator.