Generic Method - Cannot implicitly convert type 'string' to T

Question

May be a simple question..

I have an interface:

public interface ISanitizer
{
    T Sanitize(T data_);
}

And an implementi

Answer 1

In my particular case the following code generated the same error:

return (T) someData;

What helped me out - double cast with object:

E.g:

    static T MyFunction() {
        string s = "test";

        if (typeof(T) == typeof(byte[]))
            return (T)(object)System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s);
        else if (typeof(T) == typeof(string))
            return (T)(object)s;
        else throw new Exception();
    }

...

            var ba = MyFunction();
            var bs = MyFunction();