UtilityVerse.Copy by pritom purkayasta

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Name: UtilityVerse.Copy

A Roslyn source generator for generating shallow copy and deep copy for class, records and structs

Author: pritom purkayasta

NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/UtilityVerse.Copy/

You can find more details at https://github.com/purkayasta/TheUtilityVerse

Source: https://github.com/purkayasta/TheUtilityVerse

Author

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pritom purkayasta

Original Readme

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The UtilityVerse 🧰

(Multi-verse of utility methods) — a library full of helper methods you might want to use.

⭐️ Give it a star if you like the project!

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📦 Packages in This Universe

Use whatever suits your project:

1. UtilityVerse -> 🧰 No dependencies — includes core utility methods.

2. UtilityVerse.ASPNET -> 🌐 ASP.NET Core-specific helpers and extensions.

3. UtilityVerse.Copy -> ✍️ A Roslyn-based source generator that automatically generates ShallowCopy() and DeepCopy() methods for your models.
   → See full details here: UtilityVerse.Copy/README.md

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To use this utility library, you may want to start with the Utility class.

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Made with ❤️ in C#.

About

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Deep Clone and Shallow Copy of objects

How to use

Example (source csproj, source files)

CSharp Project

This is the CSharp Project that references UtilityVerse.Copy

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net9.0</TargetFramework>
    <ImplicitUsings>enable</ImplicitUsings>
    <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
  </PropertyGroup>
	<PropertyGroup>
		<EmitCompilerGeneratedFiles>true</EmitCompilerGeneratedFiles>
		<CompilerGeneratedFilesOutputPath>$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)\GX</CompilerGeneratedFilesOutputPath>
	</PropertyGroup>
	<ItemGroup>
	  <PackageReference Include="UtilityVerse.Copy" Version="0.5.0" />
	</ItemGroup>
</Project>

Program.cs

This is the use of UtilityVerse.Copy in Program.cs

using CloneData;

Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
Person p = new ();
p.FirstName = "Andrei";
p.LastName = "Ignat";
p.Age = 54;
var p1=p.DeepCopy();
Console.WriteLine(p1.Name());

Person.cs

This is the use of UtilityVerse.Copy in Person.cs

using UtilityVerse.Copy;

namespace CloneData;
[DeepCopy]
public partial class Person
{
    public string FirstName \{ get; set; \} = "";
    public string LastName \{ get; set; \} = "";
    public int Age \{ get; set; }
    public string Name() => $"{FirstName} {LastName}";

    public Person[] Childs \{ get; set; \} = [];
}

Generated Files

Those are taken from $(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)\GX

ClonableAttribute.g.cs

using System;

namespace Dolly
{
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Struct)]
    public class ClonableAttribute : Attribute
    {
    }
}

CloneIgnoreAttribute.g.cs

using System;

namespace Dolly
{
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Field | AttributeTargets.Property)]
    public class CloneIgnoreAttribute : Attribute
    {
    }
}

IClonable.g.cs

using System;
namespace Dolly
{
    public interface IClonable<T> : ICloneable
    {
        T DeepClone();
        T ShallowClone();
    }
}

Person.g.cs

using Dolly;
using System.Linq;
namespace CloneData;
partial class Person : IClonable<Person>
{
    object ICloneable.Clone() => this.DeepClone();
    public virtual Person DeepClone() =>
        new ()
        {
            FirstName = FirstName,
            LastName = LastName,
            Childs = Childs.Select(item => item.DeepClone()).ToArray()
        };

    public virtual Person ShallowClone() =>
        new ()
        {
            FirstName = FirstName,
            LastName = LastName,
            Childs = Childs.ToArray()
        };
}

CloneData_Person_DeepCopy.g.cs

  // <auto-generated>
  //     This code was generated by Copy.
  //     Author: Pritom Purkayasta
  //     DO NOT modify this file manually. Changes may be overwritten.
  //     This file contains auto-generated DeepCopy() implementations.
  // </auto-generated>

  using System;
  using System.Linq;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
  using System.Collections.Immutable;
  using System.Collections.Concurrent;
  using System.Collections.Frozen;

namespace CloneData
{
    public partial class Person
    {
        [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCode("DeepCopyGenerator", "1.0")]
        public Person DeepCopy()
        {
            return new Person
            {
                FirstName = this.FirstName,
                LastName = this.LastName,
                Age = this.Age,
                Childs = this.Childs?.Select(x => x?.DeepCopy()).ToArray(),
            };
        }
    }
}

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https://ignatandrei.github.io/RSCG_Examples/v2/docs/UtilityVerse.Copy

Category "Clone" has the following generators:

1 CopyTo

2 Dolly

3 UtilityVerse.Copy

See category

Clone