CLSS.Types.SortedAction

Problem

The default System.Action delegate determines order-of-execution by registration order. This can be inflexible for the system you are building.

Solution

SortedAction determines order-of-execution by the key you associate with each action.

When you declare a SortedAction instance, the first type to give it is the key type, called TKey. This type will determine the memory footprint of the keys and the number of possible key values. Types following TKey are argument types.

Tkey can be any type, but preferably types that implement System.IComparable<T>.

SortedAction inherits from SortedList and uses its methods for adding and removing elements.

Example:

using CLSS;

var OnEvent = new SortedAction<byte, int, string>();
OnEvent.Add(93, (n, s) => Console.WriteLine($"3rd action"));
OnEvent[25] = (n, s) => Console.WriteLine($"1st action");
OnEvent[68] = (n, s) => Console.WriteLine($"2nd action");
OnEvent.Invoke(16, "foo");
// Output:
// 1st action
// 2nd action
// 3rd action

Note #1: Upon using CLSS;, Invoke syntax will also be available to all of the following types: SortedList<TKey, Action>, SortedList<TKey, Action<T>>, SortedList<TKey, Action<T1, T2>>, etc...

Note #2: Unlike most CLSS packages which target minimum .NET Standard 1.0, this package targets minimum .NET Standard 1.3.

This package is a part of the C# Language Syntactic Sugar suite.