Passing variable as generic type

Question

I am trying to get the current class type, from a base class, and pass it as a parameter.

The code should do something like this:

public BaseClass
{
    public BaseClass()
    {
        var MyType = GetType();
        var A = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyType>(...);
    }
}

so if it is instanced like this:

public class MyObject : BaseClass

then the last call would do:

 var A = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyObject>(...);

but I can't find how to pass the type as a parameter.

any idea how this can be achieved?

Answer 1

You can use JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(string value, Type type) . It allows you to specify the type of the object you want to build.

public BaseClass
{
    public BaseClass()
    {
        var MyType = GetType();
        var A = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject("{ json blob }", MyType);
    }
}

A will be of type MyType . JsonConvert.DeserializeObject is returning an object you will have to cast the result to what you want at some point.

The documentation is available here