Question: I've tried to identify a struct with string value(name).
`reflect.TypeOf` returns `Type`.

But type assertion needs a `type`.

How can I casting `Type` to `type`?

Or any suggestion to handle it?

<http://play.golang.org/p/3PJG3YxIyf>

```
package main

import (
"fmt"
"reflect"
)
type Article struct {
    Id             int64       `json:"id"`
    Title          string      `json:"title",sql:"size:255"`
    Content        string      `json:"content"`
}

func IdentifyItemType(name string) interface{} {
    var item interface{}
    switch name {
    default:
        item = Article{}
    }
    return item
}

func main() {

    i := IdentifyItemType("name")
    item := i.(Article)
    fmt.Printf("Hello, item : %v\n", item)
    item2 := i.(reflect.TypeOf(i))  // reflect.TypeOf(i) is not a type
    fmt.Printf("Hello, item2 : %v\n", item2)

}

```

Answer: 
I think what you're looking for here is a type switch. 
<https://tour.golang.org/methods/16>
I think you can use ValueOf to solve this

```
item2 :=  reflect.ValueOf(i)
fmt.Printf("Hello, item2 : %v\n", item2)

```