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CA1819: Properties should not return arrays

  • Artikkel
Property Value
Rule ID CA1819
Title Properties should not return arrays
Category Performance
Fix is breaking or non-breaking Breaking
Enabled by default in .NET 9 No

Cause

A property returns an array.

By default, this rule only looks at externally visible properties and types, but this is configurable.

Rule description

Arrays returned by properties are not write-protected, even if the property is read-only. To keep the array tamper-proof, the property must return a copy of the array. Typically, users won't understand the adverse performance implications of calling such a property. Specifically, they might use the property as an indexed property.

How to fix violations

To fix a violation of this rule, either make the property a method or change the property to return a collection.

When to suppress warnings

You can suppress a warning that's raised for a property of an attribute that's derived from the Attribute class. Attributes can contain properties that return arrays, but can't contain properties that return collections.

You can suppress the warning if the property is part of a Data Transfer Object (DTO) class.

Otherwise, do not suppress a warning from this rule.

Suppress a warning

If you just want to suppress a single violation, add preprocessor directives to your source file to disable and then re-enable the rule.

C# 
#pragma warning disable CA1819
// The code that's violating the rule is on this line.
#pragma warning restore CA1819

To disable the rule for a file, folder, or project, set its severity to none in the configuration file.

ini 
[*.{cs,vb}]
dotnet_diagnostic.CA1819.severity = none

For more information, see How to suppress code analysis warnings.

Configure code to analyze

Use the following option to configure which parts of your codebase to run this rule on.

You can configure this option for just this rule, for all rules it applies to, or for all rules in this category (Performance) that it applies to. For more information, see Code quality rule configuration options.

Include specific API surfaces

You can configure which parts of your codebase to run this rule on, based on their accessibility, by setting the api_surface option. For example, to specify that the rule should run only against the non-public API surface, add the following key-value pair to an .editorconfig file in your project:

ini 
dotnet_code_quality.CAXXXX.api_surface = private, internal

Obs!

Replace the XXXX part of CAXXXX with the ID of the applicable rule.

Example violation

The following example shows a property that violates this rule:

C# 
public class Book
{
    private string[] _Pages;

    public Book(string[] pages)
    {
        _Pages = pages;
    }

    public string[] Pages
    {
        get { return _Pages; }
    }
}

To fix a violation of this rule, either make the property a method or change the property to return a collection instead of an array.

Change the property to a method

The following example fixes the violation by changing the property to a method:

C# 
public class Book
{
    private string[] _Pages;

    public Book(string[] pages)
    {
        _Pages = pages;
    }

    public string[] GetPages()
    {
        // Need to return a clone of the array so that consumers            
        // of this library cannot change its contents            
        return (string[])_Pages.Clone();
    }
}

Change the property to return a collection

The following example fixes the violation by changing the property to return a System.Collections.ObjectModel.ReadOnlyCollection<T>:

C# 
public class Book
{
    private ReadOnlyCollection<string> _Pages;
    public Book(string[] pages)
    {
        _Pages = new ReadOnlyCollection<string>(pages);
    }

    public ReadOnlyCollection<string> Pages
    {
        get { return _Pages; }
    }
}

Allow users to modify a property

You might want to allow the consumer of the class to modify a property. The following example shows a read/write property that violates this rule:

C# 
public class Book
{
    private string[] _Pages;

    public Book(string[] pages)
    {
        _Pages = pages;
    }

    public string[] Pages
    {
        get { return _Pages; }
        set { _Pages = value; }
    }
}

The following example fixes the violation by changing the property to return a System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<T>:

C# 
public class Book
{
    private Collection<string> _Pages;

    public Book(string[] pages)
    {
        _Pages = new Collection<string>(pages);
    }

    public Collection<string> Pages
    {
        get { return _Pages; }
    }
}