How to create extension methods for Types

Question

I am writing an extension method for parsing JSON string for any given type. I wanted to use the method on types instead of instances like many examples we already know, but

Answer 1

To use the extension method, you would have to do:

var instance = typeof(MyClass).ParseJson(text);

The token "MyClass" is not a Type instamce intself, but using typeof will get you a Type to operate on. But how is this any better than:

var instance = JsonUtility.ParseJson(text);

Edit: Actually, the code for the extension method still would not do what you wanted. It will always return a "Type" object, not an instance of that Type.