How to get a type from a String in order to be used in GetComponent<> ?

Hello guys,

Is it possible to retrieve a type using a string that represent a fully qualified class name and pass it to GetComponent<> ? A tried different ways to do that but none of them did succeeded.

Thanks

 

Why you store types as string will be first question?
You know this approach is begging for bugs.

 

Use GetComponent(Type type) or GetComponent(string type) overloads.

 

I do not really store a type as a string. The real case scenario is that I want to call GetComponent on an object in order to retrieve a component that is the same type as another component which I have a reference to.

To be precise what I have is :

- an Unity.Object which is a Component
- A GameObject

I need to find the Component type and then be able to use this type to call GetComponent on the GameObject to find if it holds a component of that type.

If I was talking about string is that because with a variable Type you can get a string that full represent a class name.

Thanks

 

GetComponent(this.GetType());

 

You really want to avoid using strings wherever possible.
Try cache types in form of collection (array/list/dictionary etc), or use enumerator to make switch statement, to call relevant type.

Strings are nightmare to debug. Specially when you star ramming things.