Cannot convert from 'method group' to 'System.Action<object>' error

无人久伴 提交于 2019-12-22 01:47:03

问题


I have created the following function:

public void DelegatedCall(Action<Object> delegatedMethod)

And defined the following method

public void foo1(String str) { }

However, when I try to call DelegateCall with foo1:

DelegatedCall(foo1);

...I get the following compiler error:

Argument 1: cannot convert from 'method group' to 'System.Action<object>'

What is the reason for this error and how can I correct it? Unfortunately, casting foo1 to Action is not an option.


回答1:


DelegatedCall expects a delegate that takes any object as an argument. But your function foo1 that you are passing to DelegatedCall can only cope with a string argument. So, the conversion isn't type-safe and thus is not possible.

Input parameters are contra-variant, but your code needs covariance. (See Difference between Covariance & Contra-variance.)

You can make DelegatedCall generic:

DelegatedCall<T>(Action<T> action)

...or have it take any delegate:

DelegatedCall(Delegate action)

But then implementing it is ugly and requires reflection. It also doesn't verify that the function has only one parameter at compile-time.




回答2:


Variance doesn't work that way around; you would need

DelegatedCall(obj => foo1((string)obj));

As even in 4.0 it won't believe that every object is a string.

Note that if it was foo1(object) and Action<string> (i.e. the other way around) it probably would work (in 4.0), since every string is an object.



来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4704734/cannot-convert-from-method-group-to-system-actionobject-error

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