General interface overload for methods?

Question

Is there a good, general way to do the following without resorting to the second method or a lot of casts - I want the API to be as light as possible, and it seems to me that this is normal. OO-wise:

class Foo
{
  public T Bar<T>() where T: IAlpha
  {
    /* blahblahblah */
  }

  public T Bar<T>() where T: IBeta
  {
    /* blahblahblah */
  }
}

interface IAlpha
{
  string x {set;}
}

interface IBeta
{
  string y {set;}
}

thanks

Answer 1

You cannot overload a method only with a return value (general or not). In addition, it would be impossible to resolve calls Bar, since the object could implement both IAlpha, and IBetaso, therefore this is not possible with overload.

public class AlphaBeta : IAlpha, IBeta
{
    string x {set;}
    string y {set;}
}

// too ambiguous
AlphaBeta parkingLot = myFoo.Bar<AlphaBeta>();

Below will also not work, because methods differ only in return type

class Gar
{
    public string Foo()
    {
        return "";
    }

    public int Foo()
    {
        return 0;
    }
}

, . .

public class Foo
{
    private readonly static Dictionary<Type, Command> factories =
        new Dictionary<Type, Command>();

    static Foo()
    {
        factories.Add(typeof(IAlpha), new AlphaCreationCommand());
        factories.Add(typeof(IBeta), new BetaCreationCommand());
    }

    public T Bar<T>()
    {
        if (factories.ContainsKey(typeof(T)))
        {
            return (T) factories[typeof(T)].Execute();
        }
        throw new TypeNotSupportedException(typeof(T));
    }
}

// use it like this
IAlpha alphaInstance = myFoo.Bar<IAlpha>();
IBeta betaInstance = myFoo.Bar<IBeta>();

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public void Bar<T>(out T returnValue)
{
    if (factories.ContainsKey(typeof(T)))
    {
        returnValue = (T) factories[typeof(T)].Execute();
        return;
    }
    throw new TypeNotSupportedException(typeof(T));
}

// call it like this
// T is inferred from the parameter type
IAlpha alphaInstance;
IBeta betaInstance;
myFoo.Bar(out alphaInstance);
myFoo.Bar(out betaInstance);

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Answer 2

?

class Foo
{
  public void Bar<T>(Action<T> @return) where T: IAlpha
  {
    @return(new AlphaImpl());
  }

  public void Bar<T>(Action<T> @return) where T: IBeta
  {
    @return(new BetaImpl());
  }
}

interface IAlpha
{
  string x {set;}
}

interface IBeta
{
  string y {set;}
}