Soenneker.Reflection.Cache

Caches reflection metadata, lookups, constructed generics, custom attributes, and compiled member accessors for repeated use.

Installation

dotnet add package Soenneker.Reflection.Cache

Registration

using Soenneker.Reflection.Cache.Registrars;

services.AddReflectionCacheAsSingleton();

A singleton gives the application one shared metadata graph and the highest cache reuse. Use AddReflectionCacheAsScoped() when metadata must stop being retained with a scope. The cache has no eviction API; its cached Type, member, attribute, and delegate references live as long as the cache does. Avoid a long-lived cache for types loaded into collectible AssemblyLoadContext instances.

For manual construction:

var cache = new ReflectionCache();

Thread safety is enabled by default. new ReflectionCache(threadSafe: false) removes concurrency protection and is suitable only when the cache instance is confined to one thread.

Follow the cached chain

CachedType cachedType = cache.GetCachedType(typeof(OrderHandler));

CachedMethod? method = cachedType.GetCachedMethod(
    nameof(OrderHandler.Handle),…