#region Copyright (c) 2004, Ryan Whitaker
/*********************************************************************************
'
' Copyright (c) 2004 Ryan Whitaker
'
' This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no
' event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this
' software.
'
' Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including
' commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the
' following restrictions:
'
' 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that
' you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an
' acknowledgment (see the following) in the product documentation is required.
'
' This product uses software written by the developers of NClassifier
' (http://nclassifier.sourceforge.net). NClassifier is a .NET port of the Nick
' Lothian's Java text classification engine, Classifier4J
' (http://classifier4j.sourceforge.net).
'
' 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
' misrepresented as being the original software.
'
' 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
'
'********************************************************************************/
#endregion
using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Collections;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace NClassifier
{
public static class Utilities
{
/// <summary>
/// Gets the value of a static property on a specific type.
/// </summary>
/// <typeparam name="T">The type of value to return.</typeparam>
/// <param name="t">The type to search.</param>
/// <param name="name">The name of the property.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static T GetPropertyValue<T>(this Type t, string name)
{
if (t == null)
return default(T);
BindingFlags flags = BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public;
PropertyInfo info = t.GetProperty(name, flags);
if (info == null)
{
// See if we have a field;
FieldInfo finfo = t.GetField(name, flags);
if (finfo == null)
return default(T);
return (T)finfo.GetValue(null);
}
return (T)info.GetValue(null, null);
}
}
}
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