C#: IEnumerable, GetEnumerator, a simple, simple example please!

Question

Trying to create an uebersimple class that implements get enumerator, but failing madly due to lack of simple / non-functioning examples out there. All I want to do is create a

Answer 1

Based on your comment that you want to have a wrapper around a data structure (the list), and an enumerator function to return an Album, I think you're talking about indexer properties, right? This is how you do it:

public class Album
{
    public readonly string Artist;
    public readonly string Title;
    public Album(string artist, string title)
    {
         Artist = artist;
         Title = title;
    } 
}

public class AlbumList
{
    private List Albums = new List();
    public int Count
    {
        get { return Albums.Count; }
    }

    public Album this[int index]
    {
        get
        {
            return Albums[index];
        }
    }

    public Album this[string albumName]
    {
        get
        {
            return Albums.FirstOrDefault(c => c.Title == albumName);
        }
    }

    public void Add(Album album)
    {
        Albums.Add(album);
    }

    public void Remove(Album album)
    {
        Albums.Remove(album);
    }
}

A small console program:

        AlbumList albums = new AlbumList();
        albums.Add(new Album { Artist = "artist1", Title = "title1" });
        albums.Add(new Album { Artist = "artist2", Title = "title2" });

        for (int i = 0; i < albums.Count; i++)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(albums[i].Artist);
            Console.WriteLine(albums[i].Title);
        }

        Console.WriteLine("title for artist1");
        Console.WriteLine(albums["artist1"].Title);