如何在Kotlin中将类型传递给泛型方法

I have a generic method like below

private fun <T> getSomething(): T {
    return "something" as T
}

How can I call this method with a variable T type?

val types = arrayListOf<Type>(String::class.java, Boolean::class.java)
types.forEach { type ->
    val something = getSomething<type>() // Unresolved reference: type
}

在运行时，我不知道什么是泛型类型T.我从types中获取类型，应该使用泛型getSomething方法传递它.

Use case

我想调用有几个表的数据库.示例模型如下

class User{

}

class Student{

}

Since all the calling queries are basically same, I want to have generic method for calling database and get data.

private fun <T> getData(model: String): List<T>?{
    return when(model){
        "user" -> getUsers()
        "student" -> getStudents()
        else -> null
    }
}

So when I call above method. Within my loop I want to pass Type as either User or Student.

val types = arrayListOf<Type>(User::class.java, Student::class.java)
types.forEach { type ->
    val data = getData<type>(type.javaClass.simpleName) // Unresolved reference: type in <type>
}

How can I achieve it.