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Represents a collection of associated String keys and String values that can be accessed either with the key or with the index. Portable version.
namespace System.Collections.Specialized
{
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
/// <summary>
/// Represents a collection of associated String keys and String values that can be accessed either with the key
/// or with the index.
/// </summary>
public class NameValueCollection : IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>>
{
// Fields
private readonly List<KeyValuePair<string, string>> items;
/// <summary>
/// Gets the entry at the specified index of the NameValueCollection.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="index">The zero-based index of the entry to locate in the collection.</param>
/// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.String" /> that contains the comma-separated list of values at the specified index of the collection.</returns>
public string this[int index]
{
get { return Get(items[index].Key); }
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets or sets the entry with the specified key in the NameValueCollection.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name">The String key of the entry to locate. The key can be null.</param>
/// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.String" /> that contains the comma-separated list of values associated with the specified key, if found; otherwise, null.</returns>
public string this[string name]
{
get { return Get(name); }
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets all the keys in the NameValueCollection.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>If the collection is empty, this method returns an empty String array, not null.</remarks>
public IEnumerable<string> AllKeys
{
get { return items.Select(kvp => kvp.Key).Distinct(); } // <-- No duplicates returned.
}
/// <summary>
/// Get or set whether all the values associated with the specified key from the NameValueCollection should be grouped using the comma separator. Default is false.
/// </summary>
public bool GroupByCommaSeparatedValues
{
get;
set;
}
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="NameValueCollection"/> class that is empty, has the default initial
/// capacity and uses the default case-insensitive hash code provider and the default case-insensitive comparer.
/// </summary>
public NameValueCollection()
{
items = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>();
}
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="NameValueCollection"/> class that is empty, has the specified initial
/// capacity and uses the default case-insensitive hash code provider and the default case-insensitive comparer.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="capacity"></param>
public NameValueCollection(int capacity)
{
items = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>(capacity);
}
/// <summary>
/// Copies the entries in the specified <see cref="T:System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection" /> to the current <see cref="T:System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection" />.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="pairs">The <see cref="T:System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection" /> to copy to the current <see cref="T:System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection" />.</param>
public void Add(IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, string>> pairs)
{
if (pairs == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("pairs");
foreach (var kvp in pairs)
{
Add(kvp.Key, kvp.Value);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Adds an entry with the specified name and value to the <see cref="NameValueCollection"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name">The String key of the entry to add. The key can be null.</param>
/// <param name="value">The Object value of the entry to add. The value can be null.</param>
public void Add(string name, object value)
{
name = name ?? String.Empty;
value = value ?? String.Empty;
items.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>(name, value.ToString()));
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the values associated with the specified name combined into one comma-separated list.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name">The name of the entry that contains the values to get. The name can be null.</param>
/// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.String" /> that contains a comma-separated list of url encoded values associated with the specified name if found; otherwise, null. The values are Url encoded.</returns>
public string Get(string name)
{
return String.Join(",", GetValuesInternal(name));
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the values associated with the specified key from the NameValueCollection.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="name">The name of the entry that contains the values to get. The name can be null.</param>
/// <returns>A <see cref="T:System.String" /> that contains url encoded values associated with the name, or null if the name does not exist.</returns>
public string[] GetValues(string name)
{
return GetValuesInternal(name).ToArray();
}
private IEnumerable<string> GetValuesInternal(string name)
{
return items.Where(kvp => String.Compare(kvp.Key, name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0).Select(kvp => kvp.Value).ToList();
}
public IEnumerator<KeyValuePair<string, string>> GetEnumerator()
{
return items.GetEnumerator();
}
IEnumerator System.Collections.IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
{
return items.GetEnumerator();
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the content of this instance to its equivalent string representation.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The string representation of the value of this instance, multiple values with a single key are comma separated.</returns>
public override string ToString()
{
return String.Concat("?", GroupByCommaSeparatedValues
? String.Join("&", AllKeys.Select(key => new { key, value = GetValues(key).Aggregate((s, next) => String.Concat(s, ",", next)) }).Select(pair => String.Join("=", pair.key, Uri.EscapeDataString(pair.value))))
: String.Join("&", AllKeys.SelectMany(GetValues, (key, value) => String.Join("=", key, Uri.EscapeDataString(value)))));
}
}
}
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