From ecdb4f4fb572de65ccb780bcad4a3c174cb430e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Cameron <chris.cameron@wedoresi.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2019 15:18:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: AbstractGenericJsonConverter exposes virtual methods
 for overriding object serialization/deserialization

---
 .../Json/AbstractGenericJsonConverter.cs      | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/AbstractGenericJsonConverter.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/AbstractGenericJsonConverter.cs
index e5a84e9..fd51bab 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/AbstractGenericJsonConverter.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/Json/AbstractGenericJsonConverter.cs
@@ -56,6 +56,17 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Json
 				return;
 			}
 
+			WriteObject(writer, value, serializer);
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Override to write the object value to the writer.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="writer"></param>
+		/// <param name="value"></param>
+		/// <param name="serializer"></param>
+		protected virtual void WriteObject(JsonWriter writer, T value, JsonSerializer serializer)
+		{
 			writer.WriteStartObject();
 			{
 				WriteProperties(writer, value, serializer);
@@ -119,6 +130,17 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Json
 			if (reader.TokenType != JsonToken.StartObject)
 				throw new FormatException(string.Format("Expected {0} got {1}", JsonToken.StartObject, reader.TokenType));
 
+			return ReadObject(reader, serializer);
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Override to handle deserialization of the current StartObject token.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="reader"></param>
+		/// <param name="serializer"></param>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		protected virtual T ReadObject(JsonReader reader, JsonSerializer serializer)
+		{
 			T output = Instantiate();
 
 			reader.ReadObject(serializer, (p, r, s) => ReadProperty(p, r, output, s));