How to create lambda expression that returns object's property, having this property's name?

Question

I am completely lost on this one. I have a piece of code that does what I need when implemented like this:

return filters.Add(m => m.Metadata.RecordId).IsEqua         


        

Answer 1

What about this call:

return filters.Add(m => ReflectionMagic(m, "Metadata.RecordId").IsEqualTo(1);

The method would have this signature:

public object ReflectionMagic(object source, string property);

If that would work, you could do something like this:

var propertyTree = property.Split('.');

foreach(var propertyName in propertyTree)
{
     var propInfo = source.GetType().GetProperty(propertyName);
     var source = propInfo.GetValue(source, null);
}

return source;

Be aware that any kind of argument and return value checks are missing and are left as an excercise to the reader.