Question

So I have this custom object / static function that take a Type to call:

      MyObject<MyType>.MyFunction();

MyObject is defined as such:

      public abstract class MyObject <type> { ... }

How do I invoke it? The reason I need to do invoking is because MyType is dynamic, and I can’t do this:

     Type t = this.GetType();
     MyObject<t>.MyFunction();

Answer 1

You’d need to use reflection to instantiate the class – and then more reflection to invoke the method:

Type typeDefinition = typeof(MyObject<>);
Type constructedType = typeDefinition.MakeGenericType(t);
MethodInfo method = constructedType.GetMethod("MyFunction");
method.Invoke(null, null);

It’s unpleasant, certainly. Do you definitely need it to be a method in a generic class?