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I have to update a value in the IEnumerable collection. Because it is read only, what is the trick to update the values?
product.Variants is an IEnumerable and I want to update something like this
product.Variants[0].Barcode ="something"
current I get an error like this
then I pass product variable to a function and that does some processing on product.Variants
someFunction (product) // this function should have the new barcode updated above.
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Error CS0021 documentation says:
An attempt was made to access a value through an indexer on a data type that does not support Indexers.
Simple as that. An IEnumerable just exposes the enumerator not the underlying data. If you want to access that data you need to "materialize" the IEnumerable into a collection of its data.
var list = product.Variants.ToList();
if(list.Count > 0)
{
ProductVariant pv = list[0];
....
}
but this "materializes" the whole list and if you need only the first item probably you can just use the IEnumerable extension FirstOrDefault;
var pv = product.Variants.FirstOrDefault();
if(pv != null)
{
.....
}