Passing typeof(Type) as method argument

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If target .NET methods expects "Type" as argument, which is being called in .NET using Method(typeof(Some_Type)) syntax, you can call such method with NType object as argument.
Javonet introduces "NType" class to store .NET Type. To retrieve the instance of particular .NET type as counterpart of typeof(String) you should use Javonet.getType("String") method. The "getType(String typeName)" method is static method on Javonet class which accepts in first argument the name of .NET type and returns the instance of NType class connected to the Type object of provided type. Type name argument might contain either type name or type name with full namespace. If there is only one type with selected name in loaded assemblies then Javonet will lookup the namespace automatically otherwise full namespace should be provided or exception will be thrown.

Assuming we have a custom .NET Framework DLL with the following class inside:

I want to use:

.NET Framework DLL

namespace TestClass
{
	public class TestClass
	{
		public TestClass() { }

		using System;
		
		namespace TestNamespace
		{
			public class TestClass
			{
				public TestClass() { }
				~TestClass()
				{
					Console.WriteLine("Displaying object from .NET destructor message");
				}
				public static int MyStaticField { get; set; }
				public int MyInstanceField { get; set; }
		
				public static string SayHello(string name)
				{
					return "Hello " + name;
				}
		
				public int MultiplyByTwo(int arg)
				{
					return arg * 2;
				}
		
				public T MyGenericMethod<T>(T arg1)
				{
					return arg1;
				}
				public K MyGenericMethodWithTwoTypes<T, K>(T arg1)
				{
					return default(K);
				}
		
				public void MethodWithRefArg(ref int arg)
				{
					arg = arg + 44;
				}
		
				public string PassTypeArg(Type myType)
				{
					return myType.ToString();
				}
		
				public string MethodWithEnumArg(SampleEnum value)
				{
					return value.ToString();
				}
			}
		}
		
	}
}
using System;

namespace TestNamespace
{
	public class TestClass
	{
		public TestClass() { }
		~TestClass()
		{
			Console.WriteLine("Displaying object from .NET destructor message");
		}
		public static int MyStaticField { get; set; }
		public int MyInstanceField { get; set; }

		public static string SayHello(string name)
		{
			return "Hello " + name;
		}

		public int MultiplyByTwo(int arg)
		{
			return arg * 2;
		}

		public T MyGenericMethod<T>(T arg1)
		{
			return arg1;
		}
		public K MyGenericMethodWithTwoTypes<T, K>(T arg1)
		{
			return default(K);
		}

		public void MethodWithRefArg(ref int arg)
		{
			arg = arg + 44;
		}

		public string PassTypeArg(Type myType)
		{
			return myType.ToString();
		}

		public string MethodWithEnumArg(SampleEnum value)
		{
			return value.ToString();
		}
	}
}

To use method which expects type as argument:

I code in:

Java

I want to use:

.NET Framework DLL

Select language you code in:

Java

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