[API Proposal]: Add GetDeclaringType to PropertyDefinition and EventDefinition

[MichalStrehovsky]

Background and motivation

S.R.Metadata provides a way to get the owning type of fields and methods. It doesn't provide an API to get owning type of properties and events. I think it should be exposed for parity.

The lookup strategy is similar (a binary search in one of the tables).

API Proposal

namespace System.Reflection.Metadata
{
    public struct PropertyDefinition
    {
        public TypeDefinitionHandle GetDeclaringType();
    }

    public struct EventDefinition
    {
        public TypeDefinitionHandle GetDeclaringType();
    }
}

API Usage

PropertyDefinition someProperty = ...;
var owningType = someProperty.GetDeclaringType();

Risks

No response

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Issue Details

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Background and motivation

S.R.Metadata provides a way to get the owning type of fields and methods. It doesn't provide an API to get owning type of properties and events. I think it should be exposed for parity.

The lookup strategy is similar (a binary search in one of the tables).

API Proposal

namespace System.Reflection.Metadata
{
    public struct PropertyDefinition
    {
        public TypeDefinitionHandle GetDeclaringType();
    }

    public struct EventDefinition
    {
        public TypeDefinitionHandle GetDeclaringType();
    }
}

API Usage

PropertyDefinition someProperty = ...;
var owningType = someProperty.GetDeclaringType();

Risks

No response

Author:	MichalStrehovsky
Assignees:	-
Labels:	api-suggestion, area-System.Reflection.Metadata
Milestone:	-

[MichalStrehovsky]

Cc @tmat for a S.R.Metadata new API opinion.

[buyaa-n]

Moving this to 8.0, @MichalStrehovsky please let us know if you need it in 7.0