I want to test an object to see if it implements IDictionary<TKey,TValue>
but I don't care what TKey
and TValue
are.
I can test if is a concrete instance of the framework Dictionary<,>
like this:
bool isDict = type.IsGenericType &&
(typeof(Dictionary<,>).IsAssignableFrom(type.GetGenericTypeDefinition());
but I can't think of a way to test for something that implements IDictionary<,>
. This technique doesn't work for the interface; IsAssignableFrom
return false if I test against the generic base type IDictionary<,>
, which seems odd since it works for the concrete type.
Normally you would use is
to test if something implements an interface, but of course this only works if I want to test for a specific generic interface. Or I would just test for a common ancestral interface, but unlike other generic data structures such as IList<>
and ICollection<>
, there is no unique non-generic interface from which the generic IDictionary<TKey,TValue>
inherits.