Get the name of a Dart class as a Type or String

Question

Problem I need to solve

Is there a way to get the class name of a dart class as a String or a Type object..?

class MyClass {
}
var myClass = MyClass();

I know the property, runtimeType which return the type of the object as a Type object. But is there a similar function for classes?

print(myClass.runtimeType.toString());

What I currently do is creating an object of the class and use runtimeType.

String type = MyClass().runtimeType.toString();

Note: In python there is a variable called __name__ in every class, which does what I need.

My intention

My final goal is to create dart objects using previously saved class names. In this issue they have proposed a method using Maps.
The thing is that I have lots of classes and that method looks messy in my situation.

What I currently do is, save the object type by:

var saving = myClass.runtimeType.toString();

And when loading:

if (saving == MyClass().runtimeType.toString()) {
    return MyClass();
}

From your experiences and opinions, can you propose a better solution?

Answer 1

The class type can be used as a Type:

Type myType = MyClass;

Answer 2

You can use:

var runtimeTypeName = (MyClass).toString();

or for generics:

var runtimeTypeName = T.toString();