How to pass in type via method of variable?

Question

I want to deserialize an object at runtime and cannot figure out how to pass in the type without actually passing in model type.

E.g.

JsonConvert.DeserialzeObject(objectToDeserialize);

I want to be able to do something like this:

Type runtimeType = Type.GetType("namespace_and_class_name");

var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<runtimeType>(objectToDeserialize);

or something like:

var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Type.GetType(stringOfType)>(objectToDeserialize);

Think about this, if what you wanted to do did actually work how would you write your next line of code that used `result` if `var` did not exist in the language. — Scott Chamberlain, Feb 18 '16 at 15:29

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '16 at 15:28

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object result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json, type);

Bear in mind that because the type is not known at compile time, the code cannot be generic anymore. You have to use object instead.

answered Feb 18 '16 at 15:28

dcastro

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