From a207ca7ca4bac7f9d30c3990d0892708fcac2c9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Klika <cee@live.at>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 18:54:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ConvertJsonToList

---
 PocketSharp/Components/Get.cs | 12 ++++++++++++
 PocketSharp/IPocketClient.cs  |  8 ++++++++
 PocketSharp/PocketClient.cs   | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/PocketSharp/Components/Get.cs b/PocketSharp/Components/Get.cs
index fa5a46d..70e40ec 100644
--- a/PocketSharp/Components/Get.cs
+++ b/PocketSharp/Components/Get.cs
@@ -121,6 +121,18 @@ namespace PocketSharp
     }
 
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Converts a raw JSON response to a PocketItem list
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="itemsJSON">The raw JSON response.</param>
+    /// <returns></returns>
+    /// <exception cref="PocketException"></exception>
+    public IEnumerable<PocketItem> ConvertJsonToList(string itemsJSON)
+    {
+      return DeserializeJson<Retrieve>(itemsJSON).Items;
+    }
+
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Retrieves all available tags.
     /// Note: The Pocket API contains no method, which allows to retrieve all tags, so all items are retrieved and the associated tags extracted.
diff --git a/PocketSharp/IPocketClient.cs b/PocketSharp/IPocketClient.cs
index d7a7308..caefcab 100644
--- a/PocketSharp/IPocketClient.cs
+++ b/PocketSharp/IPocketClient.cs
@@ -160,6 +160,14 @@ namespace PocketSharp
     /// <exception cref="PocketException"></exception>
     Task<IEnumerable<PocketItem>> Get(RetrieveFilter filter, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken));
 
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Converts a raw JSON response to a PocketItem list
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="itemsJSON">The raw JSON response.</param>
+    /// <returns></returns>
+    /// <exception cref="PocketException"></exception>
+    IEnumerable<PocketItem> ConvertJsonToList(string itemsJSON);
+
     /// <summary>
     /// Retrieves all available tags.
     /// Note: The Pocket API contains no method, which allows to retrieve all tags, so all items are retrieved and the associated tags extracted.
diff --git a/PocketSharp/PocketClient.cs b/PocketSharp/PocketClient.cs
index cd422f7..5e9bcb5 100644
--- a/PocketSharp/PocketClient.cs
+++ b/PocketSharp/PocketClient.cs
@@ -215,11 +215,24 @@ namespace PocketSharp
       // cache response
       lastResponseData = responseString;
 
-      responseString = responseString.Replace("[]", "{}");
+      return DeserializeJson<T>(responseString);
+    }
+
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Converts JSON to Pocket objects
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
+    /// <param name="json">Raw JSON response</param>
+    /// <returns></returns>
+    /// <exception cref="PocketException">Parse error.</exception>
+    protected T DeserializeJson<T>(string json) where T : class, new()
+    {
+      json = json.Replace("[]", "{}");
 
       // deserialize object
       T parsedResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(
-        responseString,
+        json,
         new JsonSerializerSettings
         {
           Error = (object sender, ErrorEventArgs args) =>