Question

I got a custom class, who relies on a generic type T to be passed along.
I only know what type it is in string form, because that’s how it’s being sent. I’ve been searching around but can’t seem to find exactly what I need.
I can parse the string value to a type, but I need to parse it to… something, that I can pass as a generic parameter.

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I’ve rewritten my problem, as such:

// Classes structure
namespace Mynamespace
{
    public interface IRequest
    {
    }

    public interface IHandler<T> where T : IRequest
    {
        void Handle(T item);
    }

    public class MyRequest : IRequest
    {
    }

    public class MyHandler : IHandler<MyRequest>
    {
        void Handle(MyRequest item)
        {
        }
    }
}

// The info I get, and I know typeString is a IRequest
string typeString = "My";
object requestItem = [insert xml parsing here];

// I then create a handler, to handle the request
Type typeHandler = Type.GetType("Mynamespace." + typeString + "Handler");
var handler = Activator.CreateInstance(typeHandler);

Type typeRequest = Type.GetType("Mynamespace." + typeString + "Request");

// what I want to do:
handler.Handle(requestItem);

I can’t do that because handler and requestItem are just objects
So I need to parse ‘handler’ to ‘typeHandler’, and requestItem to ‘typeRequest’

Edit:
I figured it out, I used InvokeMember to access it. 🙂

typeHandler.InvokeMember("Handle", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, handler, new[] { requestItem });

Answer 1

I figured it out, I used InvokeMember to access it. 🙂

typeHandler.InvokeMember("Handle", BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, handler, new[] { requestItem });