ListView, ComboBox, and ObservableCollection<T>

using System;
using System.Reflection;

namespace CoreMVVM.Messenger
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This class is an implementation detail of the MessageToActionsMap class.
    /// </summary>
    internal class WeakAction
    {
        readonly MethodInfo method;
        readonly Type delegateType;
        readonly WeakReference weakRef;

        /// <summary>
        /// Constructs a WeakAction
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="target">The instance to be stored as a weak reference</param>
        /// <param name="method">The Method Info to create the action for</param>
        /// <param name="parameterType">The type of parameter to be passed in the action. Pass null if there is not a paramater</param>
        internal WeakAction(object target, MethodInfo method, Type parameterType)
        {
            //create a Weakefernce to store the instance of the target in which the Method resides
            weakRef = new WeakReference(target);

            this.method = method;

            // JAS - Added logic to construct callback type.
            if (parameterType == null)
                this.delegateType = typeof(Action);
            else
                this.delegateType = typeof(Action<>).MakeGenericType(parameterType);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates a "throw away" delegate to invoke the method on the target
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns></returns>
        internal Delegate CreateAction()
        {
            object target = weakRef.Target;
            if (target != null)
            {
                // Rehydrate into a real Action
                // object, so that the method
                // can be invoked on the target.
                return Delegate.CreateDelegate(
                            this.delegateType,
                            weakRef.Target,
                            method);
            }
            else
            {
                return null;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// returns true if the target is still in memory
        /// </summary>
        public bool IsAlive
        {
            get
            {
                return weakRef.IsAlive;
            }
        }
    }
}