From 8b195936b1932cee1163fbd55a79c4e66f600b4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Russ Cam <russ.cam@elastic.co>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 09:51:19 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Add non-generic overload for As()

Relates #2408
---
 .../LazyDocument/LazyDocument.cs              | 24 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Nest/CommonAbstractions/LazyDocument/LazyDocument.cs b/src/Nest/CommonAbstractions/LazyDocument/LazyDocument.cs
index 1d86961da3a..4331309e047 100644
--- a/src/Nest/CommonAbstractions/LazyDocument/LazyDocument.cs
+++ b/src/Nest/CommonAbstractions/LazyDocument/LazyDocument.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using Newtonsoft.Json;
+using System;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
 using Newtonsoft.Json.Linq;
 
 namespace Nest
@@ -7,11 +8,18 @@ namespace Nest
 	public interface ILazyDocument
 	{
 		/// <summary>
-		///
+		/// Creates an instance of <typeparamref name="T"/> from this
+		/// <see cref="ILazyDocument"/> instance
 		/// </summary>
-		/// <typeparam name="T"></typeparam>
-		/// <returns></returns>
+		/// <typeparam name="T">The type</typeparam>
 		T As<T>() where T : class;
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Creates an instance of <paramref name="objectType"/> from this
+		/// <see cref="ILazyDocument"/> instance
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <typeparam name="T">The type</typeparam>
+		object As(Type objectType);
 	}
 
 	public class LazyDocument : ILazyDocument
@@ -19,10 +27,18 @@ public class LazyDocument : ILazyDocument
 		internal JToken _Value { get; set; }
 		internal JsonSerializer _Serializer { get; set; }
 
+		/// <inheritdoc />
 		public T As<T>() where T : class
 		{
 			var jToken = this._Value;
 			return jToken?.ToObject<T>(_Serializer);
 		}
+
+		/// <inheritdoc />
+		public object As(Type objectType)
+		{
+			var jToken = this._Value;
+			return jToken?.ToObject(objectType, _Serializer);
+		}
 	}
 }