From fab692c15ec1003bddfa250d408f05c79328a17b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Don Oerkfitz <don@dmcdynamics.llc>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 22:35:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added protected to and from json methods

---
 OSI-API/Controllers/_EndpointBase.cs | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/OSI-API/Controllers/_EndpointBase.cs b/OSI-API/Controllers/_EndpointBase.cs
index 1ca6576..6444968 100644
--- a/OSI-API/Controllers/_EndpointBase.cs
+++ b/OSI-API/Controllers/_EndpointBase.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
 
 namespace OSI.API.Controllers
 {
@@ -24,5 +26,30 @@ namespace OSI.API.Controllers
         // DELETE: api/Clients/5
         [HttpDelete("{id}")]
         public abstract IActionResult Delete(int id);
+
+        protected T FromJSON<T>(string input)
+        {
+            JsonSerializerOptions options = new()
+            {
+                Converters = {
+                   new JsonStringEnumConverter()
+               }
+            };
+
+            return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<T>(input, options);
+        }
+
+        protected string ToJSON<T>(T input)
+        {
+            JsonSerializerOptions options = new()
+            {
+                WriteIndented = true,
+                Converters = {
+                    new JsonStringEnumConverter()
+                }
+            };
+
+            return JsonSerializer.Serialize<T>(input, options);
+        }
     }
 }
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