RaisePropertyChanged method in ObservableObject #1086
Description
Overview
Trying to replace an internal, legacy implementation of ObservableCollection with the one in CommunityToolkit it was noticed there is no way to simply raise the PropertyChanged event without invoking OnPropertyChanged and any overrides.
This functionality is relied upon in some cases and it's time consuming to work around. Since it seems harmless adding upstream here to ObservableObject I created this ticket.
API breakdown
class ObservableObject
{
protected void RaisePropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string? propertyName = null)
{
PropertyChanged?.Invoke(new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
}
protected void OnPropertyChanged(PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
PropertyChanged?.Invoke(e);
}
}Usage example
The cases where this is most useful are those where you are doing something within an OnPropertyChanged override and want to raise some event manually (you just calculated something manually). If you use OnPropertyChanged again it's going to crash with a stack overflow as it keeps calling itself. Of course you can guard against this but it seems easy enough just to support the ability to raise the event directly. Tooling should generally let you do what you want to do while guiding towards a proper flow. Not restrict you completely.
Breaking change?
No
Alternatives
None in this context. Would just have to force all code to work with OnPropertyChanged only.
Additional context
No response
Help us help you
No, just wanted to propose this