added str_to_obj method

osbot_utils/utils/Json.py

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 import json
 import os
 
-from osbot_utils.utils.Misc import str_lines, str_md5, str_sha256
+from osbot_utils.utils.Misc  import str_lines, str_md5, str_sha256
 from osbot_utils.utils.Files import file_create_gz, file_create, load_file_gz, file_contents, file_lines, file_lines_gz
-from osbot_utils.utils.Zip import str_to_gz, gz_to_str
+from osbot_utils.utils.Zip   import str_to_gz, gz_to_str
 
 
 def json_dumps(python_object, indent=4, pretty=True, sort_keys=False, default=str, raise_exception=False):

osbot_utils/utils/Objects.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # todo add tests
 import inspect
+import json
 import pickle
 import sys
 import types
@@ -151,6 +152,9 @@ def obj_to_dict(target):
         return {obj_to_dict(item) for item in target}
     return target                                                                   # Return non-object types as is
 
+def str_to_obj(target):
+    return dict_to_obj(json.loads(target))
+
 def enum_from_value(enum_type, value):
     try:
         return enum_type[value]         # Attempt to convert the value to an Enum member by name
@@ -390,6 +394,8 @@ def value_type_matches_obj_annotation_for_attr(target, attr_name, value):
 base_types          = base_classes
 bytes_to_obj        = pickle_load_from_bytes
 
+json_to_obj         = str_to_obj
+
 full_type_name      = class_full_name
 
 obj_list_set        = obj_keys