First cut at new layout
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+// Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
+// Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
+// http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+using System;
+using System.Collections;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Reflection;
+using Google.ProtocolBuffers.Descriptors;
+
+namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers {
+  /// <summary>
+  /// Base type for all generated extensions.
+  /// </summary>
+  /// <remarks>
+  /// The protocol compiler generates a static singleton instance of this
+  /// class for each extension. For exmaple, imagine a .proto file with:
+  /// <code>
+  /// message Foo {
+  ///   extensions 1000 to max
+  /// }
+  /// 
+  /// extend Foo {
+  ///   optional int32 bar;
+  /// }
+  /// </code>
+  /// Then MyProto.Foo.Bar has type GeneratedExtensionBase&lt;MyProto.Foo,int&gt;.
+  /// <para />
+  /// In general, users should ignore the details of this type, and
+  /// simply use the static singletons as parameters to the extension accessors
+  /// in ExtendableMessage and ExtendableBuilder.
+  /// The interface implemented by both GeneratedException and GeneratedRepeatException,
+  /// to make it easier to cope with repeats separately.
+  /// </remarks>
+  public abstract class GeneratedExtensionBase<TExtension> {
+
+    private readonly FieldDescriptor descriptor;
+    private readonly IMessage messageDefaultInstance;
+
+    protected GeneratedExtensionBase(FieldDescriptor descriptor, Type singularExtensionType) {
+      if (!descriptor.IsExtension) {
+        throw new ArgumentException("GeneratedExtension given a regular (non-extension) field.");
+      }
+
+      this.descriptor = descriptor;
+      if (descriptor.MappedType == MappedType.Message) {
+        PropertyInfo defaultInstanceProperty = singularExtensionType
+            .GetProperty("DefaultInstance", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public);
+        if (defaultInstanceProperty == null) {
+          throw new ArgumentException("No public static DefaultInstance property for type " + typeof(TExtension).Name);
+        }
+        messageDefaultInstance = (IMessage)defaultInstanceProperty.GetValue(null, null);
+      }
+    }
+
+    public FieldDescriptor Descriptor {
+      get { return descriptor; }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Returns the default message instance for extensions which are message types.
+    /// </summary>
+    public IMessage MessageDefaultInstance {
+      get { return messageDefaultInstance; }
+    }
+
+    public object SingularFromReflectionType(object value) {
+      switch (Descriptor.MappedType) {
+        case MappedType.Message:
+          if (value is TExtension) {
+            return value;
+          } else {
+            // It seems the copy of the embedded message stored inside the
+            // extended message is not of the exact type the user was
+            // expecting.  This can happen if a user defines a
+            // GeneratedExtension manually and gives it a different type.
+            // This should not happen in normal use.  But, to be nice, we'll
+            // copy the message to whatever type the caller was expecting.
+            return MessageDefaultInstance.WeakCreateBuilderForType()
+                           .WeakMergeFrom((IMessage)value).WeakBuild();
+          }
+        case MappedType.Enum:
+          // Just return a boxed int - that can be unboxed to the enum
+          EnumValueDescriptor enumValue = (EnumValueDescriptor) value;
+          return enumValue.Number;
+        default:
+          return value;
+      }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Converts from the type used by the native accessors to the type
+    /// used by reflection accessors. For example, the reflection accessors
+    /// for enums use EnumValueDescriptors but the native accessors use
+    /// the generated enum type.
+    /// </summary>
+    public object ToReflectionType(object value) {
+      if (descriptor.IsRepeated) {
+        if (descriptor.MappedType == MappedType.Enum) {
+          // Must convert the whole list.
+          IList<object> result = new List<object>();
+          foreach (object element in (IEnumerable) value) {
+            result.Add(SingularToReflectionType(element));
+          }
+          return result;
+        } else {
+          return value;
+        }
+      } else {
+        return SingularToReflectionType(value);
+      }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Like ToReflectionType(object) but for a single element.
+    /// </summary>
+    internal Object SingularToReflectionType(object value) {
+      return descriptor.MappedType == MappedType.Enum
+          ? descriptor.EnumType.FindValueByNumber((int) value)
+          : value;
+    }
+
+    public abstract object FromReflectionType(object value);
+  }
+}
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