Provider Pattern in .NET‏

 1. To create a provider we first have to create a public abstract class that defines our contract. This class must implement the System.Configuration.ProviderBase abstract class and it should contain the definition of methods and properties used as the "contract" of our provider

         using System.Configuration.Provider;

 

namespace ConsoleApplication1.ProviderSample

{

    public abstract class StringResourceProvider:ProviderBase

    {

        public abstract  string  GetString(string id);

        public abstract void AddString(string id ,string value);

    }

}

2. add the actual implementations of the provider

• XmlStringResourceProvider Implementation

 

 using System; namespace ConsoleApplication1.ProviderSample { public class XmlStringResourceProvider:StringResourceProvider { public override string GetString(string id) { Console.WriteLine("get from xml file:{0}",id); return "xml file"; } public override void AddString(string id, string value) { Console.WriteLine("write string to xml file:{0}-{1}",id,value); } } }

 

• SqlStringResourceProvider Implementattion

        using System; namespace ConsoleApplication1.ProviderSample { public class SqlStringResourceProvider:StringResourceProvider { public override string GetString(string id) { Console.WriteLine("get string from sql server:{0}",id); return "sql server"; } public override void AddString(string id, string value) { Console.WriteLine("add string to sql server:{0}-{1}",id,value); } } }

 

           

 

 

3. create the service that will use the StringResourceProvider. It's is coupled to the contract definition of our provider and not to its implementations, so it knows what to ask for but no actually how or where will it be done.

 using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Configuration; using System.Web.Configuration; namespace ConsoleApplication1.ProviderSample { public class StringResourceService { StringResourceProvider _provider; public StringResourceProvider ResourceProvider { get { return _provider; } } public StringResourceService() { // ProviderSettings ps = new ProviderSettings("XmlStringResourceProvider", // "ConsoleApplication1.ProviderSample.XmlStringResourceProvider,ConsoleApplication1"); //_provider = ProvidersHelper.InstantiateProvider(ps, typeof(XmlStringResourceProvider)) as XmlStringResourceProvider; ProviderSettings ps = new ProviderSettings("SqlStringResourceProvider", "ConsoleApplication1.ProviderSample.SqlStringResourceProvider,ConsoleApplication1"); _provider = ProvidersHelper.InstantiateProvider(ps, typeof(SqlStringResourceProvider)) as SqlStringResourceProvider; //if you do not want to reference //_provider = System.Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(SqlStringResourceProvider)) as SqlStringResourceProvider; } #region "service methods" public string GetString(string id) { return _provider.GetString(id); } public void AddString(string id, string value) { _provider.AddString(id, value); } #endregion } }

 

            StringResourceService service = new StringResourceService();

            service.GetString("key1");

            service.AddString("key2","value2");

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