Expression to create an instance with object initializer

Question

Is there any way to create an instance of an object with object initializer with an Expression Tree? I mean create an Expression Tree to build this lambda:

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Answer 1

Finally I found my answer:

public static Func<bool, dynamic> Creator; 

static void BuildLambda() { 
    var expectedType = typeof(MyObject); 
    var displayValueParam = Expression.Parameter(typeof(bool), "displayValue"); 
    var ctor = Expression.New(expectedType); 
    var local = Expression.Parameter(expectedType, "obj"); 
    var displayValueProperty = Expression.Property(local, "DisplayValue"); 

    var returnTarget = Expression.Label(expectedType); 
    var returnExpression = Expression.Return(returnTarget,local, expectedType); 
    var returnLabel = Expression.Label(returnTarget, Expression.Default(expectedType)); 

    var block = Expression.Block( 
        new[] { local }, 
        Expression.Assign(local, ctor), 
        Expression.Assign(displayValueProperty, displayValueParam), 
        /* I forgot to remove this line:
         * Expression.Return(Expression.Label(expectedType), local, expectedType), 
         * and now it works.
         * */
        returnExpression, 
        returnLabel 
        ); 
    Creator = 
        Expression.Lambda<Func<bool, dynamic>>(block, displayValueParam) 
            .Compile(); 
}

UPDATE:

While it works fine, but @svick provide a better and shorter way in his answer that is actuallt wath I was looking for: MemberInit. Please see @svick's answer.

Answer 2

To represent object initializers in an Expression, you should use Expression.MemberInit():

Expression<Func<bool, MyObject>> BuildLambda() { 
    var createdType = typeof(MyObject);
    var displayValueParam = Expression.Parameter(typeof(bool), "displayValue"); 
    var ctor = Expression.New(createdType);
    var displayValueProperty = createdType.GetProperty("DisplayValue");
    var displayValueAssignment = Expression.Bind(
        displayValueProperty, displayValueParam);
    var memberInit = Expression.MemberInit(ctor, displayValueAssignment);

    return
        Expression.Lambda<Func<bool, MyObject>>(memberInit, displayValueParam);
}

To verify this actually does what you want, you can call ToString() on the created expression. In this case, the output is as expected:

displayValue => new MyObject() {DisplayValue = displayValue}