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C # General Linq Request

I need to write some general search method, for example:

public List<T> Search<T>(SearchParamsBase searchParams)
{
    using (var context = new TestEntities())
    {
        var dataType = TypeMap.Get(typeof (T));
        var dataSet = context.Set(dataType);

        var searchQuery = CreateQuery((IEnumerable<object>) dataSet), searchParams)

        return searchQuery.ToList()
    }
}

and I have a function CreateQuery()that should filter the object IEnumerable. This feature will be different for all classes. For instance:

CreateQuery(IEnumerable<object> collection, SearchParamsBase searchParams)
{
    var search = (SomeSearchImplementation)searchParams;
    // filter 
    collection = collection.Where(x => x.Name == search.Name);
    // select page
    collection = collection.Skip(search.Page * search.CountPerPage);
    collection = collection.Take(search.CountPerPage);
    // order by and so on
    // ...
    return collection;
}

How can I correctly implement this idea?

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What you basically want to do here is build the LINQ query dynamically. To do this, you need to modify / build the expression tree at run time. If you are not familiar with expression trees and type Expression<T>, I recommend this article and the link pages in the See Also section:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397951.aspx

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public static IQueryable<T> OrderByDynamic<T>(this IQueryable<T> query, string sortColumn, bool descending) 
{
    // Dynamically creates a call like this: query.OrderBy(p => p.SortColumn)
    var parameter = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), "p");

    string command = "OrderBy";

    if (descending)
    {
        command = "OrderByDescending";
    }

    Expression resultExpression = null;    

    var property = typeof(T).GetProperty(sortColumn);
    // this is the part p.SortColumn
    var propertyAccess = Expression.MakeMemberAccess(parameter, property);

    // this is the part p => p.SortColumn
    var orderByExpression = Expression.Lambda(propertyAccess, parameter);

    // finally, call the "OrderBy" / "OrderByDescending" method with the order by lamba expression
    resultExpression = Expression.Call(typeof(Queryable), command, new Type[] { typeof(T), property.PropertyType },
       query.Expression, Expression.Quote(orderByExpression));

    return query.Provider.CreateQuery<T>(resultExpression);
}

, Name ascending :

dataSet.OrderByDynamic("Name", false)

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