Dolly

Clone .net objects using source generation

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Table of Contents

• About the Project
• Getting Started
• Example
• Benchmarks

About The Project

Generate c# code to clone objects on the fly.

Getting Started

• Add the Dolly nuget and add [Clonable] attribute to a class and ensure that the class is marked as partial.
• Add [CloneIgnore] to any property or field that you don't want to include in the clone.
• Call DeepClone() or ShallowClone() on the object.

Example

[Clonable]
public partial class SimpleClass
{
    public string First { get; set; }
    public int Second { get; set; }
    [CloneIgnore]
    public float DontClone { get; set; }
}

Should generate

partial class SimpleClass : IClonable<SimpleClass>
{
    
    object ICloneable.Clone() => this.DeepClone();

    public SimpleClass DeepClone() =>
        new SimpleClass()
        {
            First = First,
            Second = Second
        };

    public SimpleClass ShallowClone() =>
        new SimpleClass()
        {
            First = First,
            Second = Second
        };
}

Benchmarks

Method	Mean	Error	StdDev	Ratio	RatioSD	Gen0	Gen1	Allocated
Dolly	124.5 ns	1.59 ns	1.49 ns	1.00	0.02	0.0362	-	608 B
DeepCloner	457.7 ns	7.01 ns	6.56 ns	3.68	0.07	0.0830	-	1392 B
CloneExtensions	566.2 ns	9.61 ns	8.52 ns	4.55	0.08	0.0896	-	1504 B
NClone	4,308.0 ns	62.01 ns	58.01 ns	34.61	0.61	0.5112	0.0076	8584 B
FastCloner	15,310.6 ns	221.85 ns	207.52 ns	123.00	2.16	0.3967	-	6800 B
AnyClone	19,011.9 ns	354.27 ns	347.94 ns	152.74	3.25	2.4414	-	41256 B