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Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<IRole>'

We have this class defined:

namespace VU.Business.Entities
{
public class KuDbRoleProvider : IRoleProvider
{
public KuDbRoleProvider();

public IEnumerable<IRole> GetDefaultRoles();
public IRole GetRoleByName(string roleName);
public IRole New(string roleName);
public IEnumerable<IRole> RetrieveAllRoles();
}
}

And in another class I'm trying to implement and call the RetrieveAllRoles() and put it into some sort of collection which I tried making an array:

class KURoleProvider : RoleProviderBase
{
public override Configuration.Roles.Role[] GetRoles()
{

KuDbRoleProvider roleProvider;
BusinessInterfaces.Security.IRole[] kuRoles;
kuRoles = roleProvider.RetrieveAllRoles();
....

I can't figure out how to get this working. Here is my error:

Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<BusinessInterfaces.Security.IRole>' to 'BusinessInterfaces.Security.IRole'. An explicit conversion exists (are you missing a cast?)

p_davis

not that this will fix your problem explicitly but i would recommend using generic lists for this

List<KuDbRoleProvider >

figroc

IRole[] is Array. As IEnumerable<T>, they are both IEnumerable. But you cannot convert IEnumerable<T> to Array implicitly. You can declare kuRoles as IEnumerable<IRole>, that will work.

dba123

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why would you use an IEnumerable in the first place to get a list of roles when you can just shove it into a frigging generic list or array? I don't see why whoever implemented this with an Enumerable.

dba123

ASKER

It is pretty obvious, that I need to implement all the methods in the IRoleProvider which it looks like KuDbRoleProvider has not done yet. It's just stubbed out. I don't need to create a new class, I just need to finish the implementation on KuDbRoleProvider methods for IRoleProvider it looks like. I just don't get why anyone would use IEnumerable to get a list of the roles from our DAL when you can just push it into an array in the first place.

dba123

ASKER

nevermind I guess I was looking at some meta data of that class. So here's the implementation of RetrieveAll

public IEnumerable<IRole> RetrieveAllRoles()
{
List<IRole> roles = new List<IRole>();

using (IDataReaderEnumerable<DAL.Role> dalRoles = DAL.Role.RetrieveAll())
foreach (DAL.Role dalRole in dalRoles)
roles.Add(new Role(dalRole));

return roles;
}

Why the hell would you use IEnumerable in this case? it's returning a generic list in the first place that can be sorted so why would you do that? and what's this IDataReaderEnumerable...weird, I've never used this before. I didn't implement this method and the person who did is out right now.

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Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable&lt;IRole&gt;'

Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<IRole>'