question about custom attributes

[M]

Is it possible to define an attribute that describes a property of a
class at runtime?

For example, you have a class called "employee", and it has a property
"name". The "name" property has an attribute that tells any calling
code whether or not this property is "writable" and/or "readable", even
though this property has both get/set accessors.

Maybe there is another way to do this, and I just don't have enough
experience.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[M]

Is the following possible? If so, is this the proper way to do it?

[AttributeUsage(AttributeTarget.Property,Inherited=true,AllowMultiple=true)]

public class SecurityInfoAttribute : Attribute
{
// Private Data
private int readable;
private int writable;


// Constructor
public SecurityInfoAttribute(int readable, int writable)
{
this.security_readable = 0;
this.security_writable = 0;

}

public int Readable
{
get
{
return readable;
}
set
{
readable = value;
}
}

public int Writable
{
get
{
return writable;
}
set
{
writable = value;
}
}


}



public class employee {

string name;
[SecurityInfo(getReadSecurityInfo(userId), getWriteSecurityInfo(userId))]
string Name{get{return name;}set{name = value;}}



}

And then examine the name property of this object from within the client
code in order to show it to that user or not, based on the security info
attribute.