From 39022201bd83461202bb1e98fb89ea97ae7135b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: demorome <demoromestuff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 02:24:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add TextUtils.DeserializeJson, using TitleStorage

---
 src/Text/TextUtils.cs | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/Text/TextUtils.cs

diff --git a/src/Text/TextUtils.cs b/src/Text/TextUtils.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..770adf6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Text/TextUtils.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+
+using System;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+using MoonWorks.Storage;
+
+public static class TextUtils
+{
+    public static unsafe object DeserializeJson(
+        TitleStorage storage,
+        string filePath,
+        Type type,
+        JsonSerializerContext context
+        )
+    {
+        if (!storage.GetFileSize(filePath, out var size))
+		{
+			return null;
+		}
+
+        object result;
+		var buffer = NativeMemory.Alloc((nuint) size);
+		var span = new Span<byte>(buffer, (int) size);
+		if (storage.ReadFile(filePath, span))
+		{
+            result = JsonSerializer.Deserialize(
+                span,
+                type, 
+                context
+            );
+		}
+        else
+        {
+            result = null;
+        }
+
+		NativeMemory.Free(buffer);
+		return result;
+    }
+}
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