How to call Type Methods within an instance method

var staticRet:String = ClassA.staticMethod()

This works. It doesn't take any parameters so you don't need to pass in any. You can also get ClassA dynamically like this:

Swift 2

var staticRet:String = self.dynamicType.staticMethod()

Swift 3

var staticRet:String = type(of:self).staticMethod()

I wanted to add one more twist to this old question.

In today's Swift (I think it switched at 4, but I am not sure), we have replaced type(of: self) with Self (Note the capital "S").

In Swift 3 you can use:

let me = type(of: self)
me.staticMethod()

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