rspec/rules/S1479/csharp/rule.adoc
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== Why is this an issue?
When https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/statements/selection-statements#the-switch-statement[switch] statements have large sets of case clauses, it is usually an attempt to map two sets of data. A https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.dictionary-2[Dictionary] should be used instead to make the code more readable and maintainable.
=== Exceptions
This rule ignores `switch` statements over `Enum` arguments and empty, fall-through cases.
== How to fix it
Store all the cases apart from the `default` one in a dictionary and try to get the matching value by calling the https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.generic.dictionary-2.trygetvalue[TryGetValue] method.
=== Code examples
The example below are using the "Maximum number of case" property set to `4`.
==== Noncompliant code example
[source,csharp,diff-id=1,diff-type=noncompliant]
----
public class TooManyCase
{
public int mapValues(char ch)
{
switch(ch) { // Noncompliant: 5 cases, "default" excluded, more than maximum = 4
case 'a':
return 1;
case 'b':
case 'c':
return 2;
case 'd':
return 3;
case 'e':
return 4;
case 'f':
case 'g':
case 'h':
return 5;
default:
return 6;
}
}
}
----
==== Compliant solution
[source,csharp,diff-id=1,diff-type=compliant]
----
using System.Collections.Generic;
public class TooManyCase
{
Dictionary<char, int> matching = new Dictionary<char, int>()
{
{ 'a', 1 },
{ 'b', 2 },
{ 'c', 2 },
{ 'd', 3 },
{ 'e', 4 },
{ 'f', 5 },
{ 'g', 5 },
{ 'h', 5 }
};
public int mapValues(char ch)
{
int value;
if (this.matching.TryGetValue(ch, out value)) {
return value;
} else {
return 6;
}
}
}
----
include::../resources-dotnet.adoc[]
* https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/statements/selection-statements#the-switch-statement[The `switch` statement]
include::../rspecator-dotnet.adoc[]