What is ParseTo

Parse To was a project first conceptualized as a way to commonly handle nulls but soon moved into a generic Parser to take an object variable and turn it into a generically passed type, a built in default for the type or a passed default for the type.

It does this by using an IParse<> interface that creates a handler for the type you wish to cast to or resturns an Exception if the type has not IParse<> impelmentation

Current Functionality

Custom parsable types

To build custom parsable type inherit a handler class or actual parsable object class from the IParse<[ObjectClassName]>(Must have a blank constructor) and implement the interface. Its as simple as that you class can now be parsed

For Example:

public TestObject : IParse<TestObject>
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    
    public TestObject Parse(object i)
    {
        if(i is string)
            return new TestObject() { Name = i };
        return (TestObject)i;
    }

    public TestObject GetDefault()
    {
        return new TestObject();
    }
}    

build the class and inhrit from IParse<>(Must have a blank constructor)

public void TestMethod(string obj = "blank")
{
    var testObject = obj.ParseTo<TestObject>();

Now you can parse to your test object

Pre-built parsable types

int

Default return: 0

int?

Default return: null

string

Default return: ""

double

Default return: 0

long

Default return: 0

float

Default return: 0

decimal

Default return: 0

Guid

Default return: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

bool

Default return: false

bool?

Default return: null

DateTime

Default return: 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM (Equals Date.MinValue)

DateTime?

Default return: null

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