How to do runtime type casting in TypeScript?

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The prototype of the class can be dynamically affected to the object:

function cast<T>(obj: any, cl: { new(...args): T }): T {
  obj.__proto__ = cl.prototype;
  return obj;
}

var john = cast(/* somejson */, Person);

See the documentation of __proto__ here.

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