Making functions for any kind of class

I import a lot of stuff at runtime and have to run some checks but its all with different classes, how could you make this function work with any array handed to it, all variables handed to it will always be the same but the data could change Audio, Strings, Ints etc

Any tips?

Code (CSharp):

1.     private Object[] CheckMerge(bool replace, Object[] defaultData, Object[] newData)
2.     {
3.        
4.         Object[] outputData = defaultData;
5.         if (newData.Length > 0)
6.         {
7.             if (replace) outputData = newData;
8.             else outputData = outputData.Concat(newData).ToArray();
9.         }
10.         return outputData;
11.     }

 

I'm not big on that stuff, but I think either a generic <T> or an interface.

 

Use generics:

Code (csharp):

1.  
2. private T[] CheckMerge<T>(bool replace, T[] defaultData, T[] newData)
3. {
4.     var outputData = defaultData;
5.     if(newData.Length > 0)
6.     {
7.         outputData = replace ? newData : outputData.Concat(newData).ToArray();
8.     }
9.     return outputData;
10. }
11.  

What I don't understand is what is the point of this code? It replaces or concats an array, if and only if the new array has data in it... yet it's called 'CheckMerge'???

 

neatness mainly otherwise I need to repeat this 10+ times instead of just having a line.

its for importing mods, it decides if I am adding or replacing mods and then give me either the default data back or the data with the mods if the pack containted any... and thank you! Generics is what I was looking for