The Slim framework needs to convert all types used in our tests to and from strings. A number of standard type conversions are built in, or we can add our own Custom Type Converters.

Here are some examples of Slim doing round-trip conversions from a string to a standard type back to a string.

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Boolean:

check	round trip for type	System.Boolean	value	true	true
check	round trip for type	System.Boolean	value	false	false

Enumerations:

check	round trip for type	System.Reflection.BindingFlags	value	Public	Public
check	round trip for type	System.Reflection.BindingFlags	value	Instance, Public	Instance, Public

Nullable types:

check	round trip for nullable int	1	1
check	round trip for nullable int	null	null

Dictionaries:

Slim converts a nested two-column table into a dictionary. There is new wiki markup for this:

|my method|!{name:bob, addr:here}|

The method parameter can be any generic Dictionary and the nested cells will be parsed into the generic key and value types.

public void MyMethod(Dictionary<string ,string> dictionary) ...

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<table> <tr><td>key1</td><td>value1</td></tr> <tr><td>key2</td><td>value2</td></tr> </table>

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