Let's say I want to inherit from SyndicationFeed
:
public class PodcastSyndicationFeed : SyndicationFeed
{
private string subtitle;
// Gets or sets the subtitle. Used with the iTunes RSS extensions
public string Subtitle
{
get { return subtitle; }
set { subtitle = value; }
}
}
SyndicationFeed
offers a method that I can't quite wrap my head around: Load<TSyndicationFeed>(xmlReader)
.
Clearly, this method outputs my derived type. But it is unclear if that type can have any additional properties set beyond the base class SyndicationFeed
. I would think that I should be able to override some method so that I can plug-in to the system, read RSS extension elements and set the appropriate properties. But I don't see where I would go about doing this.
I see other ways of accomplishing this without Load
, but the fact that there is a generic there tells me that there has to be something I'm missing.
Maybe I could have:
public static PodcastSyndicationFeed Load<TSyndicationFeed>(XmlReader reader)
{
base.Load(reader);
// Do other stuff, like read through ElementExtensions
}
But I just feel like I'm missing something here. Is this the right track? If not, how do I properly use this method with my derived class?