Get all parent/childs

[Techno]

I am trying to get all the parents and its children objects from an object. I need to basically keep travelling through it from a single object i have. so..


object has:
=====
entities


I need to go through the object's entities, and its entities etc.... until it gets to the root entity of the object, then work its way downwards because I need to check for uniqueness of an entity

how can I do this using recursion?

[jmcilhinney]

You use GetType to get an object's type. You use GetProperties to get a type's properties. You use GetValue to get a property's value. And so on, and so on, and so on...

[Techno]

sorry. my question was not that clear

basically I want to go through each and every single parent/children from the given object

how can i get to the "root" parent from a child entity?

[jmcilhinney]

how can i get to the "root" parent from a child entity?

You wouldn't, unless the "child" has some property that refers to the "parent". For instance, consider this:

public class Class1
{
    private Class2 someField;
 
    public Class2 SomeProperty
    {
        get
        {
            return someField;
        }
        set
        {
            someField = value;
        }
    }
 
}
 
public class Class2
{
    //...
}

Class1 c1 = new Class1();
Class2 c2 = new Class2();
 
c1.SomeProperty = c2;

Now, the Class2 object has no reference to the Class1 object. It has no idea the Class1 object even exists. How could you possibly get to c1 from c2?