From d8aa032a57cba211cf8e5669988b5ff515ad93f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TekH <h.tek@digitaldata.works>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:16:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add ReflectionExtensions for property lookup by column name

Introduced a static ReflectionExtensions class with a GetValueByColumnName extension method to retrieve property values by their [Column] attribute name. Also removed an unused folder reference from the project file.
---
 src/ReC.Application/ReC.Application.csproj    |  1 -
 .../Extensions/ReflectionExtensions.cs        | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 src/ReC.Domain/Extensions/ReflectionExtensions.cs

diff --git a/src/ReC.Application/ReC.Application.csproj b/src/ReC.Application/ReC.Application.csproj
index 236efdc..fe5448d 100644
--- a/src/ReC.Application/ReC.Application.csproj
+++ b/src/ReC.Application/ReC.Application.csproj
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <Folder Include="Common\Behaviors\Action\" />
-    <Folder Include="Common\Options\DbModel\" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/ReC.Domain/Extensions/ReflectionExtensions.cs b/src/ReC.Domain/Extensions/ReflectionExtensions.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1eeb191
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ReC.Domain/Extensions/ReflectionExtensions.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
+using System.Reflection;
+
+namespace ReC.Domain.Extensions;
+
+public static class ReflectionExtensions
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Gets the value of a property by its column name defined in <see cref="ColumnAttribute"/>.
+    /// Returns <c>null</c> if no property with the given column name exists.
+    /// </summary>
+    public static object? GetValueByColumnName(this object obj, string columnName)
+    {
+        var property = obj.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance)
+            .FirstOrDefault(p => p.GetCustomAttribute<ColumnAttribute>()?.Name == columnName);
+
+        return property?.GetValue(obj);
+    }
+}