public object GetValue(string key, Type type) {
if (key == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("key");
if (type == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("type");
string val = map[key];
if (val == null) throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.GetString(SR.AppSettingsReaderNoKey, key));
if (type == stringType) {
// It's a string, so we can ALMOST just return the value. The only
// tricky point is that if it's the string "(None)", then we want to
// return null. And of course we need a way to represent the string
// (None), so we use ((None)), and so on... so it's a little complicated.
int NoneNesting = GetNoneNesting(val);
if (NoneNesting == 0) {
// val is not of the form ((..((None))..))
return val;
}
else if (NoneNesting == 1) {
// val is (None)
return null;
}
else {
// val is of the form ((..((None))..))
return val.Substring(1, val.Length - 2);
}
}
else {
try {
return Convert.ChangeType(val, type, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
} catch (Exception) {
string displayString = (val.Length == 0) ? SR.AppSettingsReaderEmptyString : val;
throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.GetString(SR.AppSettingsReaderCantParse, displayString, key, type.ToString()));
}
}
}