code generation - Adding custom attributes to C# classes using Roslyn

Question

Consider the following class in a file "MyClass.cs"

using System;

public class MyClass : Entity<long>
{
    public long Id
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    [Required]
    public string Name
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    public string Slug
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    public DateTime CreatedOn
    {
        get;
        private set;
    }

    public DateTime UpdatedOn
    {
        get;
        private set;
    }

    /* ... */
}

Currently I manually create data contract classes looking as follows:

[DataContract(Namespace = "http://example.com/", Name = "MyClass")]
public sealed class MyClass
{
    [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false, Name = "Id")]
    public long Id
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false, Name = "Name", IsRequired = true)]
    public string Name
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false, Name = "Slug")]
    public string Slug
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false, Name = "CreatedOn")]
    public DateTime CreatedOn
    {
        get;
        set;
    }

    [DataMember(EmitDefaultValue = false, Name = "UpdatedOn")]
    public DateTime UpdatedOn
    {
        get;
        set;
    }
}

I'd like to use Roslyn to rewrite "MyClass.cs" so its looks like the class I create by hand. Currently I have the following:

using System;
using System.IO;
using Roslyn.Compilers.CSharp;

internal class Program
{
    private static void Main()
    {
        var reader = new StreamReader(@"....MyClass.cs");
        var source = reader.ReadToEnd();
        var tree = SyntaxTree.ParseCompilationUnit(source);
        var rewriter = new MyRewriter();
        var newRoot = rewriter.Visit(tree.Root);
        Console.WriteLine(newRoot.Format());
    }
}

public class MyRewriter : SyntaxRewriter
{
    protected override SyntaxNode VisitClassDeclaration(ClassDeclarationSyntax node)
    {
        var declaration = (TypeDeclarationSyntax) base.VisitClassDeclaration(node);

        return ((ClassDeclarationSyntax) declaration).Update(
            declaration.Attributes,
            Syntax.TokenList(Syntax.Token(SyntaxKind.PublicKeyword), Syntax.Token(SyntaxKind.SealedKeyword)),
            declaration.Keyword,
            declaration.Identifier,
            declaration.TypeParameterListOpt,
            null,
            declaration.ConstraintClauses,
            declaration.OpenBraceToken,
            declaration.Members,
            declaration.CloseBraceToken,
            declaration.SemicolonTokenOpt);
    }

    protected override SyntaxNode VisitPropertyDeclaration(PropertyDeclarationSyntax node)
    {
        var typeSyntax = node.Type;

        if (node.Identifier.ValueText == "Id")
        {
            typeSyntax = Syntax.IdentifierName("string");
        }

        var newProperty = Syntax.PropertyDeclaration(
            modifiers: Syntax.TokenList(Syntax.Token(SyntaxKind.PublicKeyword)),
            type: typeSyntax,
            identifier: node.Identifier,
            accessorList: Syntax.AccessorList(
                accessors: Syntax.List(
                    Syntax.AccessorDeclaration(SyntaxKind.GetAccessorDeclaration, 
                    semicolonTokenOpt: Syntax.Token(SyntaxKind.SemicolonToken)),
                    Syntax.AccessorDeclaration(SyntaxKind.SetAccessorDeclaration,
                    semicolonTokenOpt: Syntax.Token(SyntaxKind.SemicolonToken))
                    )
                )
            );

        return newProperty;
    }
}

I have been trying to find a way to add the DataMember and DataContract custom attributes to MyClass but have been unsuccessful. How does one add the custom attributes?

Answer 1

One of the parameters of the Syntax.PropertyDeclaration method is a list of attributes that apply to the attribute. Like all Syntax elements, it is constructed using a factory method on the static SyntaxFactory class.

The Roslyn Quoter can be handy for figuring out how to generate syntax using Roslyn.

In your particular example, the VisitPropertyDeclaration method of your rewriter should look something like:

using static Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.CSharp.SyntaxFactory;
...

    protected override SyntaxNode VisitPropertyDeclaration(PropertyDeclarationSyntax node)
{
    var typeSyntax = node.Type;

    if (node.Identifier.ValueText == "Id")
    {
        typeSyntax = SyntaxFactory.IdentifierName("string");
    }

    var newProperty = PropertyDeclaration(
                PredefinedType(
                    Token(SyntaxKind.LongKeyword)),
                Identifier("Id"))
            .WithModifiers(
                TokenList(
                    Token(SyntaxKind.PublicKeyword)))
            .WithAccessorList(
                AccessorList(
                    List(new AccessorDeclarationSyntax[]{
                        AccessorDeclaration(
                            SyntaxKind.GetAccessorDeclaration)
                        .WithSemicolonToken(
                            Token(SyntaxKind.SemicolonToken)),
                        AccessorDeclaration(
                            SyntaxKind.SetAccessorDeclaration)
                        .WithSemicolonToken(
                            Token(SyntaxKind.SemicolonToken))})))
            .NormalizeWhitespace();

    return newProperty;
}