using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
public static void Main()
var people = GetPeople();
ConsolePeople(GetPeopleFiltered(GetFilters(new FilterRequest {Male = true}), people));
ConsolePeople(GetPeopleFiltered(GetFilters(new FilterRequest {Female= true}), people));
ConsolePeople(GetPeopleFiltered(GetFilters(new FilterRequest {Male = true, TwentyToThirty = true}),people));
ConsolePeople(GetPeopleFiltered(GetFilters(new FilterRequest {Male = true, Female=true, TwentyToThirty = true}),people));
public static void ConsolePeople(List<Person> people)
Console.WriteLine("No people found");
foreach(var person in people)
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("FirstName: {0}, LastName: {1}, Age: {2}, Gender: {3}", person.FirstName, person.LastName, person.Age, person.Gender.ToString()));
Console.WriteLine(string.Empty);
public static List<Person> GetPeople()
var people = new List<Person>();
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Philip", LastName = "Smith", Age = 29, Gender = GenderEnum.Male});
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Joe", LastName = "Blogs", Age = 40, Gender = GenderEnum.Male});
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Mary", LastName = "Ann", Age = 10, Gender = GenderEnum.Female});
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Lisa", LastName = "Dunn", Age = 60, Gender = GenderEnum.Male});
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Terry", LastName = "Banks", Age = 89, Gender = GenderEnum.Male});
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "John", LastName = "Doe", Age = 32, Gender = GenderEnum.Male});
people.Add(new Person { FirstName = "Sally", LastName = "Shields", Age = 19, Gender = GenderEnum.Female});
public static List<Expression<Func<Person, bool>>> GetFilters(FilterRequest request)
var filters = new List<Expression<Func<Person, bool>>>();
filters.Add(x=>x.Gender == GenderEnum.Male);
filters.Add(x=>x.Gender == GenderEnum.Female);
filters.Add(x=>x.Age >= 10 && x.Age < 20);
if(request.TwentyToThirty)
filters.Add(x=>x.Age >= 20 && x.Age < 30);
if(request.ThirtyToFourty)
filters.Add(x=>x.Age >= 30 && x.Age < 40);
filters.Add(x=>x.Age >= 40);
public static List<Person> GetPeopleFiltered(List<Expression<Func<Person,bool>>> filters, List<Person> people)
var query = people.AsQueryable();
foreach(var filter in filters)
query = query.Where(filter);
public class FilterRequest
public bool Male {get;set;}
public bool Female {get;set;}
public bool TentoTwenty {get;set;}
public bool TwentyToThirty {get;set;}
public bool ThirtyToFourty {get;set;}
public bool FourtyPlus {get;set;}
public string FirstName {get;set;}
public string LastName {get;set;}
public int Age {get;set;}
public GenderEnum Gender {get;set;}