I wrote the following extension methods for Session so that I can persist and retrieve objects by their type. This works well for my solution, but I ended up having to duplicate my extension methods to cover the old HttpSessionState and the new HttpSessionStateBase. I'd like to find a way to get these back down to one set that covers both types. Any thoughts?
public static class SessionExtensions
{
#region HttpSessionStateBase
public static T Get<T>(this HttpSessionStateBase session)
{
return session.Get<T>(typeof(T).Name);
}
public static T Get<T>( this HttpSessionStateBase session, string key )
{
var obj = session[key];
if( obj == null || typeof(T).IsAssignableFrom( obj.GetType() ) )
return (T) obj;
throw new Exception( "Type '" + typeof( T ).Name + "' doesn't match the type of the object retreived ('" + obj.GetType().Name + "')." );
}
public static void Put<T>(this HttpSessionStateBase session, T obj, string key)
{
session[key] = obj;
}
public static void Put<T>(this HttpSessionStateBase session, T obj)
{
session.Put(obj, typeof(T).Name);
}
#endregion
#region HttpSessionState
public static T Get<T>( this HttpSessionState session )
{
return session.Get<T>( typeof( T ).Name );
}
public static T Get<T>( this HttpSessionState session, string key )
{
var obj = session[ key ];
if( obj == null || typeof( T ).IsAssignableFrom( obj.GetType() ) )
return ( T ) obj;
throw new Exception( "Type '" + typeof( T ).Name + "' doesn't match the type of the object retreived ('" + obj.GetType().Name + "')." );
}
public static void Put<T>( this HttpSessionState session, T obj )
{
session.Put( obj, typeof(T).Name );
}
public static void Put<T>( this HttpSessionState session, T obj, string key )
{
session[ key ] = obj;
}
#endregion
}