Implementing a class with a dynamic datatype attribute C#

Question

i want to implement a class that one of the attribute is dynamic but i can't seem to figure out how to do that...

public class myClass
{
    public datetime timeStamp { get; set;  }
    public object variable { get; set; }
    public string name { get; set; }
}

I need to read a archive that has the type of the "variable" inside as a integer, for example

This is just an exaple of a json or something that i will use, the "variable" attribute of the clas (in this example) will be a string, but there are sometimes that this attribute should be a integer(example2)

Ex1:

{"name" : "Variable1" , "variable" : "string" : "myString" , "timeStamp" : "852852852" }

Ex2:

{"name" : "Variable2" , "variable" : "int32" : "125125" , "timeStamp" : "852852852" }

Answer 1

You could make OPC_UA a generic class:

class OPC_UA<T>
{
    public DateTime TimeStamp { get; set; }
    public T Variable { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

And then you can instantiate the type using reflection methods:

Type type = Type.GetType("System.Int32");
Type genericizedType = typeof(OPC_UA<>).MakeGenericType(type);
dynamic opc_ua = Activator.CreateInstance(genericType);
opc_ua.Variable = 5;  // For example