{"id":20480,"date":"2022-11-09T19:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-return-list-of-custom-class-using-linq\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T14:28:23","slug":"solved-return-list-of-custom-class-using-linq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-return-list-of-custom-class-using-linq\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Return list of custom class using Linq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-37788509\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"37788509\" data-parentid=\"37787860\" data-score=\"0\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>If you want to have separate method in the <code>Author<\/code> class like you asked in the question, it could look like:<\/p>\n<pre><code>public class Author\n{\n    public Author()\n    { }\n\n    public int _AuthorID { get; set; }\n    public string _AuthorName { get; set; }\n    public List&lt;Paper&gt; _Papers { get; set; }\n\n    public bool HasPapersForYear(int year)\n    {\n        return _Papers.Any(_paper =&gt; _paper._Year == year);\n    }\n\n    public bool HasPapersForYears(int startYear, int endYear)\n    {\n        return _Papers.Any(_paper =&gt; _paper._Year &gt;= startYear &amp;&amp; _paper._Year &lt;= endYear);\n    }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>And old methods are changed:<\/p>\n<pre><code>public List&lt;Author&gt; GetAuthorsByYear(List&lt;Author&gt; _fullList, int _year)\n{\n    return _fullList.Where(_author =&gt; _author.HasPapersForYear(_year)).ToList();\n}\n\npublic List&lt;Author&gt; GetAuthorsBetweenYears(List&lt;Author&gt; _fullList, int _startYear, int _endYear)\n{\n    return _fullList.Where(_author =&gt; _author.HasPapersForYears(_startYear,_endYear)).ToList();\n} \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Also about the part of Venue and CoAuthors <\/p>\n<pre><code>    public List&lt;int&gt; GetCoAuthorsByYear(int _year)\n    {\n        var coAuthors = new List&lt;int&gt;();\n        foreach(var paper in _Papers.Where(_paper =&gt; _paper._Year == _year))\n        {\n            coAuthors.AddRange(paper._CoAuthors);\n        }\n        return coAuthors;\n    }\n    public List&lt;int&gt; GetCoAuthorsBetweenYears(int _startYear, int _endYear)\n    {\n        var coAuthors = new List&lt;int&gt;();\n        foreach(var paper in _Papers.Where(_paper =&gt; _paper._Year &gt;= _startYear &amp;&amp; _paper._Year &lt;= _endYear))\n        {\n            coAuthors.AddRange(paper._CoAuthors);\n        }\n        return coAuthors;\n    }\n\n    public List&lt;int&gt; GetVenuesByYear(int _year)\n    {\n        var venues = new List&lt;int&gt;();\n        foreach(var paper in _Papers.Where(_paper =&gt; _paper._Year == _year))\n        {\n            venues.Add(paper._VenueID);\n        }\n        return venues;\n    }\n    public List&lt;int&gt; GetVenuesBetweenYears(int _startYear, int _endYear)\n    {\n        var venues = new List&lt;int&gt;();\n        foreach(var paper in _Papers.Where(_paper =&gt; _paper._Year &gt;= _startYear &amp;&amp; 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