[IronPython] custom ConfigurationSection in IronPython

[Jason Ferrara]

On Aug 31, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Dino Viehland wrote:

> The Item property is the default indexer, so you should be able to  
> access it using foo[index].

Thats what I thought, but it doesn't work. And if I do dir() on  
ConfigurationElement I don't see a __getitem__ or __setitem__, though  
with other .NET classes that have the Item property I do.

>
> As for your other question - Martin looked into this but I didn't  
> see a response from him...  The problem seems to be that we don't  
> define a parameterless constructor that the configuration section  
> can call.  The reason for that is that our objects actually need to  
> receive a DynamicType object which represents the class - without  
> this we wouldn't be able to know your type was MySettings.   
> Unfortunately I think this might make it impossible for you to  
> define this class in IronPython.  You could define a stub in C#  
> that calls into your Python using the engine APIs but that might be  
> more work than it's worth.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users- 
> bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Jason Ferrara
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:56 PM
> To: Discussion of IronPython
> Subject: Re: [IronPython] custom ConfigurationSection in IronPython
>
> I have another related question.  The "Item" property of  
> System.Configuration.ConfigurationElement (base class for
> ConfigurationSection) doesn't seem to be accessible from IronPython.
> Is this because its overloaded by parameter type? Is there a way to  
> access it from IronPython?
>
> Thanks
>
> - Jason
>