Pass type as parameter to controller and use it for xml deserialize-CodePudding

Hello I am currently stucking with the following problem. I want to pass a type as parameter to controller and use it to deserialize a a xml string. What I have tried looks like this

            var typeAsString = typeof(List<ProjectReportDto>).GetType().FullName;
            //... pass value to controller 
            
            // in the method I got the string 
            var type = Type.GetType(typeAsString ); 
            var mySerializer = new XmlSerializer(type);
            // I got a Exceptrion -> System.RuntimeType is inaccessible due to its protection level. Only public types can be processed.

Class ProjectReportDto

[Serializable]
public class ProjectReportDto
{
    public string ShortName { get; set; }

    public string LongName { get; set; }

    public string Description { get; set; }

    public DateTime? StartDate { get; set; }

    public DateTime? EndDate { get; set; }

    public string CustomerName { get; set; }
}

Xml string

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<ArrayOfProjectReportDto xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<ProjectReportDto>
<ShortName>Piper .NET</ShortName>
    <LongName>The new Internet</LongName>
    <Description>awsome</Description>
    <StartDate>2022-08-19T00:00:00</StartDate>
    <EndDate>2023-02-25T00:00:00</EndDate>
</ProjectReportDto>
<ProjectReportDto>
    <ShortName>Nucleus</ShortName>
    <LongName>Nucleus Portal </LongName>
    <Description>Make the world a better place </Description>
    <StartDate>2022-08-19T00:00:00</StartDate>
    <EndDate>2026-09-26T00:00:00</EndDate>
</ProjectReportDto>
</ArrayOfProjectReportDto

I have already searched for the problem but I did not found something that helped me. Maybe it is not possible to read a xml this way ?

CodePudding user response：

You call variable.GetType() to get the type of the variable, but calling GetType() on the type itself will return "System.Runtime" which is inaccessible (not public).

Replace

var typeAsString = typeof(List<ProjectReportDto>).GetType().FullName;

With

var typeAsString = typeof(List<ProjectReportDto>).FullName;