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C# C# Collections Lists Read-only Collection Interfaces

Daniel Hildreth
Daniel Hildreth
16,170 Points
Posted by Daniel Hildreth
Daniel Hildreth
16,170 Points

Need Help Read Only Collection Interface

I'm having trouble passing this challenge. I'm not sure what else I need to do. I've made the Entry into an IEnumerable. I've checked the documentation and have tried about 10 different ways now to go about this according to MSDN website. Can someone walk me through on what I'm doing wrong?

FitnessRecord.cs 
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class FitnessRecord
    {
        private List<ActivityEntry> _entries = new List<ActivityEntry>();

        public IEnumerable<ActivityEntry> Entries { get { return _entries; } }
    }
}
ActivityEntry.cs 
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class ActivityEntry
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public DateTime Started { get; set; }
        public DateTime Finished { get; set; }
    }
}

1 Answer

James Matthews
James Matthews
21,610 Points
James Matthews
James Matthews
21,610 Points

Hi Daniel,

This challenge is simply asking you to change the Entries property to return a read-only collection. The IReadOnlyList interface represents a read-only collection of elements that can be accessed by index.

You can just change the List collection type to IReadOnlyList on the Entries property, like so: 

using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class FitnessRecord
    {
        private List<ActivityEntry> _entries = new List<ActivityEntry>();

        public IReadOnlyList<ActivityEntry> Entries { get { return _entries; } }
    }
}

Hope you're having a fun time learning!

Daniel Hildreth
Daniel Hildreth
16,170 Points
Daniel Hildreth
Daniel Hildreth
16,170 Points

James,

I could've sworn that was one of the ways I tried. Now that I think back to it, that may have been the one I tried with that, and making the class using the ICollection interface. So I was almost there, I just didn't need to make the class have that ICollection interface reference on it.