JSONEncoder/JSONDecoder and String convenience methods

Author: fabianfett

Sources/AWSLambdaRuntime/Lambda+Codable.swift

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 @_exported import AWSLambdaRuntimeCore
 import class Foundation.JSONDecoder
 import class Foundation.JSONEncoder
+import struct Foundation.Data
 import NIO
 import NIOFoundationCompat
 
@@ -130,3 +131,17 @@ extension JSONEncoder: LambdaCodableEncoder {
         return buffer
     }
 }
+
+extension JSONEncoder {
+    /// Convenience method to allow encoding json directly into a String. It can be used to encode a payload into an APIGateway.V2.Response's body.
+    public func encodeAsString<T: Encodable>(_ value: T) throws -> String {
+        try String(decoding: self.encode(value), as: Unicode.UTF8.self)
+    }
+}
+
+extension JSONDecoder {
+    /// Convenience method to allow decoding json directly from a String. It can be used to decode a payload from an APIGateway.V2.Request's body.
+    public func decode<T: Decodable>(_ type: T.Type, from string: String) throws -> T {
+        try self.decode(type, from: Data(string.utf8))
+    }
+}