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Key-Value Pairs as Enum-Constants

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7 Sep 2008CPOL3 min read 61.9K   213   19  
An enum-like class that supports flags (up to 8192), has additional value-type data, description, and FastSerializer support.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace Dialogik.Utils.Defines
{
    public static class Factory
    {
        #region Method - GetDiaClassType

        private static Dictionary<string, Instancer> _dictDiaInstancers = new Dictionary<string, Instancer>();

        public static Instancer GetInstancer(Type classType)
        {
            return GetInstancer(classType, false);
        }

        public static Instancer GetInstancer(Type classType, bool listType)
        {
            Instancer diaInstancer = null;

            string hashKey = string.Format("{0}{1}", (int)classType.GetHashCode(), listType ? 1 : 0);

            if (!_dictDiaInstancers.ContainsKey(hashKey))
            {
                diaInstancer = new Instancer(hashKey, classType, listType);
                _dictDiaInstancers.Add(hashKey, diaInstancer);
            }
            diaInstancer = ((Instancer)_dictDiaInstancers[hashKey]);

            return diaInstancer;
        }

        public static Instancer GetInstancerByHash(string hashKey)
        {
            Instancer diaInstancer = null;

            if (_dictDiaInstancers.ContainsKey(hashKey))
            {
                diaInstancer = ((Instancer)_dictDiaInstancers[hashKey]);
            }

            return diaInstancer;
        }
        #endregion
    }
}

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