How hard would it be to add nested property access?

I have some similar code (though based on a different technique) which allows you to access properties nested on a hierarchical object model, for example - using your syntax:

var acc = ObjectAccessor.Create(someObject);
acc["Building.Address.Postcode"] = "SL6 2AA";
acc["Building.Rooms[5].FloorArea"] = 75;

I was wondering how easy it would be to add such functionality into FastMember, since it would be nice to get the benefits of using a more well known package rather than my own hand-rolled code.

The second API I support allows you to retrieve the actual PropertyInfo we are dealing with:

var pi = acc.GetProperyInfo("Building.Address.Postcode")

Which FastMember doesn’t seem to support at the moment.

[beachwalker]

Hi, I have posted my solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40305645/how-to-set-nested-property-value-using-fastmember

Anyway, out of the box support (e.g. extension method like I did in the example?) would be nice.

[PhilipDaniels]

@piotrkula-brother Not available publicly I am afraid but I can give you a hint - check out the reference source for the DataBinder class. http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Web/UI/DataBinder.cs,bc4362a9cfc4c370