AddComponent using fully qualified name

Unity Engine
1

Am I missing something or is there actually not a way to load a class by it’s fully qualified name?

So the class itself can be in a namespace, but I have to use a name for the class that I know will not collide with anything, which sucks.

2

you mean like this:

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

namespace MyNamespace {
	public class Test : MonoBehaviour{
	}
}

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class TestApply: MonoBehaviour{

	void Update(){
		MyNamespace.Test test = gameObject.GetComponent<MyNamespace.Test>();
	}
}

Works perfectly for me.

3

It used to not work, but it does now. I currenlty use 4.3.4.f1 and it works fine.

There is one caveat I’ve noticed. If you have optional/default args, the compiler throws an exception that the class name does not match the file name.

i.e.

using UnityEngine;

namespace SomeNamespace
{
    public class Test : MonoBehaviour
    {

        public void Foo(float a, bool someModifier = false)
        {
        }
    }
}
4 
Type type = Type.GetType(myFullyQualifiedName);
gameObject.AddComponent(type);
5

Ya I should have been more clear. By load I meant using AddComponent. The above works.