I'm looking for some help with a LINQ query to filter on a property/enum of a custom object which is in a nested List, and want to maintain the parent object in return list.
For example/clarity/sample code, I have a parent object, which has in it a List based on class and enum below:
public class Stage {
public String Name { get; set;}
public List<Evaluation> MyEvaluations { get; set;}
}
public class Evaluation {
public float Result { get; set; }
public enumResultType ResultType { get; set; }
}
public enum enumResultType {
A,B,C
}
Once can simulate sample data along those lines with something like:
List<Stage> ParentList = new List<Stage>();
Stage Stage1 = new Stage() { Name = "Stage1",
MyEvaluations = new List<Evaluation>() {
new Evaluation() { ResultType = enumResultType.A, Result=5 },
new Evaluation() { ResultType = enumResultType.B, Result=10},
new Evaluation() { ResultType = enumResultType.B, Result=11},
new Evaluation() { ResultType = enumResultType.C, Result=5}
}};
Stage Stage2 = new Stage() { Name = "Stage2",
MyEvaluations = new List<Evaluation>() {
new Evaluation() { ResultType = enumResultType.A, Result=10},
new Evaluation() { ResultType = enumResultType.B, Result=20},
new Evaluation() { ResultType = enumResultType.C, Result=20}}};
ParentList.Add(Stage1);
ParentList.Add(Stage2);
What I want to be able to do via LINQ is to select from the Parentlist
object, all the items with only a filtered list where The ResultType
in the Evaluations List matches a proper condition...
I don't want to repeat the parent object Multiple times (seen selectmany
), rather a filtered down list of the MyEvaluations
where the ResultType
matches, and if this list has items (it would) return it with the parent.
I've played with:
ParentList.Select(x => x.MyEvaluations.FindAll(y => y.ResultType==enumResultType.B)).ToList();
however this return only the inner list... whereas
ParentList.Where(x => x.MyEvaluations.Any(y => y.ResultType==enumResultType.B)).ToList();
returns ANY.. however I am missing how to get the list of MyEvaluations
to be filtered down..
In my Example/sample data, I would like to query query ParentList for all situations where ResultType = enumResultType.B;
So would expect to get back a list of the same type, but without "Evaluation" which are equal to ResultType.A
or .C
Based on dummy data, I would expect to be getting something which would have:
returnList.Count() - 2 items (Stage1 / Stage2) and within that Stage1 --> foreach (item.Result : 10, 11 Stage2 --> foreach (item.Result : 20
Can this be done without going to projections in new anonymous types as I would like to keep the list nice and clean as used later on in DataBinding and I iterate over many ResultTypes?
Feel like I'm missing something fairly simple, but fairly new to LINQ and lambda expressions.