refactor(commons): consolidate List element-type/coercion into AttributeValueCodec; InstanceActor + CLI reuse it (#93)

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Joseph Doherty
2026-06-19 02:03:09 -04:00
parent 2935c41bf7
commit 47f5ca687c
4 changed files with 120 additions and 57 deletions
@@ -64,7 +64,13 @@ public static class AttributeValueCodec
_ => el.GetRawText() // number/bool → "10" / "1.5" / "true"
};
private static Type ElementClrType(DataType t) => t switch
/// <summary>
/// The CLR element type backing a <see cref="DataType.List"/> of the given
/// element scalar — the single source of truth for the List element CLR
/// mapping. Throws <see cref="FormatException"/> for an unsupported element
/// type (see <see cref="IsValidElementType"/>).
/// </summary>
public static Type ElementClrType(DataType t) => t switch
{
DataType.String => typeof(string),
DataType.Int32 => typeof(int),
@@ -75,6 +81,49 @@ public static class AttributeValueCodec
_ => throw new FormatException($"Unsupported list element type '{t}'.")
};
/// <summary>
/// Coerces a live CLR enumerable (e.g. an OPC UA array) into a typed
/// <c>List&lt;<see cref="ElementClrType"/>&gt;</c> for the given element type,
/// converting each element with invariant culture (round-trip parse for
/// DateTime). Strings are parsed; other CLR types are converted via
/// <see cref="Convert"/>. This is the object-input counterpart to the
/// string-input parsing in <see cref="Decode"/>: callers holding decoded JSON
/// strings go through <see cref="Decode"/>; callers holding a runtime
/// collection use this. Throws <see cref="FormatException"/> for an
/// unsupported element type and may throw on an element that cannot be
/// converted (the caller decides how to handle the failure).
/// </summary>
public static IList CoerceEnumerable(IEnumerable source, DataType elementType)
{
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(source);
var clrType = ElementClrType(elementType);
var list = (IList)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(List<>).MakeGenericType(clrType))!;
foreach (var element in source)
list.Add(CoerceElement(element, elementType));
return list;
}
private static object CoerceElement(object? element, DataType t)
{
if (element is null)
throw new FormatException("List elements may not be null.");
var c = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture;
return t switch
{
DataType.String => Convert.ToString(element, c)
?? throw new FormatException("Null string element."),
DataType.Int32 => element is string si ? int.Parse(si, c) : Convert.ToInt32(element, c),
DataType.Float => element is string sf ? float.Parse(sf, c) : Convert.ToSingle(element, c),
DataType.Double => element is string sd ? double.Parse(sd, c) : Convert.ToDouble(element, c),
DataType.Boolean => element is string sb ? bool.Parse(sb) : Convert.ToBoolean(element, c),
DataType.DateTime => element is string sdt
? DateTime.Parse(sdt, c, DateTimeStyles.RoundtripKind)
: Convert.ToDateTime(element, c),
_ => throw new FormatException($"Unsupported list element type '{t}'.")
};
}
private static object? ParseScalar(string? s, DataType t)
{
if (s is null) throw new FormatException("List elements may not be null.");