Get a public field value given its name

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#endregion

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Text;

namespace Dotnet.Commons.Reflection
{
  /// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  /// <summary>  
  /// This utility class contains a rich sets of utility methods that perform operations 
  /// on objects during runtime such as copying of property and field values
  /// between 2 objects, deep cloning of objects, etc.  
  /// </summary>
  /// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  public abstract class ObjectUtils
  {

    /// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Get a <b>public</b> field value given its name
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="srcObj">object to inspect</param>
    /// <param name="fieldName">Name of the field to retrieve the value from</param>
    /// <returns>property value</returns>
    /// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static Object GetFieldValue(object srcObj, string fieldName)
    {

      FieldInfo fieldInfoObj = srcObj.GetType().GetField(fieldName);

      if (fieldInfoObj == null)
        return null;

      // Get the value from property.
      object srcValue = srcObj.GetType()
                  .InvokeMember(fieldInfoObj.Name,
                  BindingFlags.GetField,
                  null,
                  srcObj,
                  null);

      return srcValue;
    }
   }
}

   
     


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