How to cast to UClass?

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1

Example below is not working, but it illustrates what I want to get
I know that templates are not supported for UClass, but I’m searching for some version of cast which accepts uclass as a function parameter or any other workaround

class Foo {
    FString Name;
}

TSubClass<Foo> Bar;
TArray<Foo> arr;

FString Name = Cast<Bar.Get()>( arr[i] ).Name;
2

For this to work, wouldn’t class Foo need to look like this?

UCLASS()
class Foo {
   GENERATED_BODY()

   FString Name;
}
3

Thats not possible, C++ types only exist in compile time and it’s only used to construct machine code, they are not dynamic in anyway. Same goes with templates.

Also i don’t really understand why you want to do this looking on the code, you expect type Foo to have a property Name… why you casting it then?

You might also look in to interfaces which solves lot of class relation problems