From 548220ba0e05a328eeb734e299d0eb2aad722d3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Cameron <chris.cameron@wedoresi.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:56:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Shims for deserializing xml lists and dictionaries

---
 ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs
index 0f559f4..d84a455 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs
@@ -857,6 +857,26 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
 			return ReadListFromXml(xml, rootElement, childElement, readChild);
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Deserializes the xml to a dictionary.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <typeparam name="TKey"></typeparam>
+		/// <typeparam name="TValue"></typeparam>
+		/// <param name="xml"></param>
+		/// <param name="rootElement"></param>
+		/// <param name="childElement"></param>
+		/// <param name="keyElement"></param>
+		/// <param name="valueElement"></param>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		public static IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>> ReadDictFromXml<TKey, TValue>(
+			string xml, string rootElement, string childElement, string keyElement, string valueElement)
+		{
+			Func<string, TKey> readKey = IcdXmlConvert.DeserializeObject<TKey>;
+			Func<string, TValue> readValue = IcdXmlConvert.DeserializeObject<TValue>;
+
+			return ReadDictFromXml(xml, rootElement, childElement, keyElement, valueElement, readKey, readValue);
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Calls childElementCallback for each item in the list.
 		/// </summary>
@@ -877,6 +897,20 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
 				yield return readChild(child);
 		}
 
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Deserializes the xml to a list.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="xml"></param>
+		/// <param name="rootElement"></param>
+		/// <param name="childElement"></param>
+		public static IEnumerable<T> ReadListFromXml<T>(string xml, string rootElement, string childElement)
+		{
+			Func<string, T> readChild = IcdXmlConvert.DeserializeObject<T>;
+
+			return ReadListFromXml(xml, rootElement, childElement, readChild);
+		}
+
 		#endregion
 
 		#region Write Content