Feature Request - Reusable razor component without polymorphism

[mrlife]

What problem are you trying to solve?

Here is a simplified version of what I am trying to solve.

I am working on a razor component that uses a <select> to choose the value of a property on a tracked entity.

I have a base Dropdown class and multiple classes that derive from it, e.g. Color, which is a property on the tracked entity.

To make the razor component generic enough, I pass in a List<Dropdown> created from a List<Color>.

After the <select> is changed, I want to assign the new choice to the Color on the tracked entity.

There is no way I can find to set the Color property directly - razor component doesn't know it's a Color and no way to create a Color object using its type and the values from the List<Dropdown> corresponding to <select> value.

Without polymorphism support, is there a way it can be accomplished, or is it a current limitation?

Describe the solution you'd like

This is an idea:

// I'm using reflection in my code, but for this example, I'm leaving it out for simplicity
var createdColor = [create a new Color based on the chosen Dropdown and a passed in Type of Color];
trackedEntityColorProperty = createdColor;

[mkArtakMSFT]

Thanks for contacting us. This seems to be the same as #7268. Can you please confirm whether we got this right?

[mrlife]

@mkArtakMSFT This case is different - it doesn't have a child component or templated component. I basically hoped for a way to pass in a type, e.g. Color, and be able to create a new instance of that with an instance of the type it derives from, i.e. Dropdown. I think @typeparam may only for displaying content in a templated component.

I could be missing how #7268 could help, though.

[mkArtakMSFT]

Thanks for additional details. It's not still clear then what you're looking for.
Maybe you can share with us a small sample assuming the feature you're looking for is available and point us to the exact usage of it?

[mrlife]

@mkArtakMSFT Thanks for your consideration. I will go with another approach for this and close this out.