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As a side project i'm trying to remake one of my favorite games from the old days, moria/angband. I'm doing it from scratch and in C#. In order to store the inventory I have the following classes, Item and Items.

The Item Class is an abstract class that provides all the base properties and methods for an item in the game. Then I have other classes that inherit from it such as the Potion, Armor, or Weapon Classes.

Then I have the Items class which I want to be a collection of Items. This will be for the player's inventory, what the enemies carry as loot, and even a collection of items on a map square. Anywhere a collection of Items can exist, i'll use this collection.

I have defined it as such:

    public class Items

    {



    private Dictionary<string, Item> _inventory  = new Dictionary<string, Item>();



            public Dictionary<string, Item> Inventory

            {

                get

                {

                    return _inventory;

                }

                set { }

            }



            public override string ToString()

            {

                string hold = "";

                int i = 0;



                foreach (var item in Inventory)

                {

                    hold += "n" + i.ToString() + " " + item.ToString() + "n";

                }



                return hold;

            }

}

I originally tried to just return the collection, but realized that it is probably bad practice to expose the actual reference and kind of defeats the purpose of encapsulating it. So I was going to modify it to maybe Clone it. However, I don't have access to the Values or Keys collections and since I don't implement IEnumerable, I can't foreach over it which is something that will happen alot. I was thinking I had to impliment IEnumerable:

I have the same issue with my Effects collection class. It is a collection of Effect objects. An effect is something that modifies the base condition of an object, be it the player(poison, fire resistance, etc) a weapon(frost damage effect, holy avenger, etc), and so on. So, I tried it.

public class Effects : IEnumerable

    {



        Dictionary<string, Effect> _effects = new Dictionary<string, Effect>();



        public string Name

        {

            get

            {

                string result = "";

                foreach (Effect eff in _effects.Values)

                {

                    result += $" {eff.Name}";

                }

                return result;

            }

        }



        public override string ToString()

        {

            string result = "";// "Effects:n";

            foreach (var effect in _effects.Values)

            {

                result += $"nEffectName: {effect.Name.PadRight(20,' ')} Type: {effect.EffectType.ToString().PadRight(15,' ')} Magnitude: {effect.Magnitude} Duration: {effect.Duration} ";

            }

            return result;

        }



        public void AddEffect(Effect eff)

        {

            _effects.Add(eff.Name, eff);

        }

        public void AddEffect(EffectTypes effType, int magnitude)

        {

            Effect eff = new Effect();



            eff.EffectType = effType;

            eff.Magnitude = magnitude;

            eff.Name = effType.ToString();



            _effects.Add(eff.Name, eff);



        }





        // Implementation for the GetEnumerator method.



        IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()

        {

            return _effects.GetEnumerator();

        }

    }

I still don't have access to simple things like Count and so on. I think the Effects collection is closer to what I need. What I need is this: I want both Items and Effects to behave exactly as if it were a dictionary from any other class using it. Each will have custom code methods and properties which I haven't included nor written many of which makes using just a vanilla dictionary problematic.

What is the best way to implement this?

Thanks,

Brian