Strange Behaviour of an Object

[1nsp1r3d]

Hi all, I've encountered a strange behaviour of one of my objects. After it updates itself in a method(updates some private fields) the changes happen when the method is being executed but when execution returns to the line where the method was called, the object is the same as before. Let me show you the code which does this.

public enum DConfMode
{
Normal,
NoInit
}

public class DConf
{
	private String hostname;
	private String database;
	private String username;
	private String password;

	public DConf(DConfMode Mode)
	{
		switch (Mode)
		{
			case DConfMode.Normal:
				this.Init();
				break;
			case DConfMode.NoInit:
				break;
		}
	}

	public void Init()
	{
		XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(DGlobals.ConfFile);

		while (reader.Read())
		{
			switch (reader.Name)
			{
				case "hostname":
					this.hostname = reader.Value;
					break;
				case "database":
					this.database = reader.Value;
					break;
				case "user":
					this.username = reader.Value;
					break;
				case "password":
					this.password = reader.Value;
					break;
			}
		}
		reader.Close();
	}

	public String DbHostname
	{
		get
		{
			return this.hostname;
		}
	}

	public String DbDatabase
	{
		get
		{
			return this.database;
		}
	}

	public String DbUsername
	{
		get
		{
			return this.username;
		}
	}

	public String DbPassword
	{
		get
		{
			return this.password;
		}
	}
}

DConf conf = new DConf(DConfMode.NoInit);
conf.Init();
Console.WriteLine(conf.DbHostname);

So DConf does the problem. In the second code excerpt, echoing conf.DbHostname doesn't do anything, but when I've debugged it, in conf.Init(); the values are clearly populated. So I'm quite confused why this happens. Here's some sample xml which you could use: username samplepass localhost dbname As a sidenote, is it safe calling Init(); in DConf's constructor? I suppose no, since it changes fields and the object hasn't been guaranteed to have been fully set up, am I correct? Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards, gamehack -- modified at 19:29 Saturday 29th October, 2005

[1nsp1r3d]

I've found my mistake. It's in my xml handling code. Thanks for reading. Regards