Pattern for exposing non-generic version of generic interface

Question

Say I have the following interface for exposing a paged list

public interface IPagedList
{
    IEnumerable PageResults { get; }
    int Current         


        

Answer 1

My approach here would be to use new to re-declare the PageResults, and expose the T as a Type:

public interface IPagedList
{
    int CurrentPageIndex { get; }
    int TotalRecordCount { get; }
    int TotalPageCount { get; }        
    int PageSize { get; }

    Type ElementType { get; }
    IEnumerable PageResults { get; }
}   

public interface IPagedList<T> : IPagedList
{
    new IEnumerable<T> PageResults { get; }
}  

This will, however, require "explicit interface implementation", i.e.

class Foo : IPagedList<Bar>
{
    /* skipped : IPagedList<Bar> implementation */

    IEnumerable IPagedList.PageResults {
        get { return this.PageResults; } // re-use generic version
    }
    Type IPagedList.ElementType {
        get { return typeof(Bar); }
    }
}

This approach makes the API fully usable via both the generic and non-generic API.

Answer 2

One option is to create 2 interfaces such that:

    public interface IPagedListDetails
    {
        int CurrentPageIndex { get; }
        int TotalRecordCount { get; }
        int TotalPageCount { get; }
        int PageSize { get; }
    }

    public interface IPagedList<T> : IPagedListDetails
    {
        IEnumerable<T> PageResults { get; }
    }

And then your control:

public class PagedListPager(IPagedListDetails details)

Answer 3

Define two interfaces, first

    public interface IPageSpecification
    {
        int CurrentPageIndex { get; }
        int TotalRecordCount { get; }
        int TotalPageCount { get; }        
        int PageSize { get; }
    }   

public interface IPagedList<T> : IPageSpecification
{
    IEnumerable<T> PageResults { get; }
}   

As you see, IPagedList is derived from IPageSpecification. In your method, only use IPageSpecification as parameter. In other cases, IPagedList - implementers of IPagedList would also contain data from IPageSpecification