Support Tuple Deserialization into Arrays & Lists

Author: 0xFirekeeper

Thirdweb.Tests/Thirdweb.Contracts/Thirdweb.Contracts.Tests.cs

@@ -102,6 +102,26 @@ public async Task PrepareTest_NoSig()
         Assert.Contains("Method signature not found in contract ABI.", exception.Message);
     }
 
+    [Fact(Timeout = 120000)]
+    public async Task ReadTest_TupleIntoArray()
+    {
+        var contract = await ThirdwebContract.Create(this.Client, "0xEb4AAB0253a50918a2Cbb7ADBaab78Ad19C07Bb1", 421614);
+        var result = await contract.Read<List<object>>("getReserves");
+        Assert.NotNull(result);
+        Assert.NotEmpty(result);
+        Assert.True(result.Count == 3);
+    }
+
+    [Fact(Timeout = 120000)]
+    public async Task ReadTest_TupleIntoList()
+    {
+        var contract = await ThirdwebContract.Create(this.Client, "0xEb4AAB0253a50918a2Cbb7ADBaab78Ad19C07Bb1", 421614);
+        var result = await contract.Read<List<object>>("getReserves");
+        Assert.NotNull(result);
+        Assert.NotEmpty(result);
+        Assert.True(result.Count == 3);
+    }
+
     private sealed class AllowlistProof
     {
         public List<byte[]> Proof { get; set; } = new List<byte[]>();

Thirdweb/Thirdweb.Contracts/ThirdwebContract.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 using System.Numerics;
+using Nethereum.ABI.FunctionEncoding;
+using Nethereum.ABI.Model;
 using Nethereum.Contracts;
 using Nethereum.Hex.HexTypes;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
 
 namespace Thirdweb;
 
@@ -119,7 +122,18 @@ public static async Task<T> Read<T>(ThirdwebContract contract, string method, pa
         var data = function.GetData(parameters);
         var resultData = await rpc.SendRequestAsync<string>("eth_call", new { to = contract.Address, data }, "latest").ConfigureAwait(false);
 
-        return function.DecodeTypeOutput<T>(resultData);
+        if ((typeof(T).IsGenericType && typeof(T).GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(List<>)) || typeof(T).IsArray)
+        {
+            var functionAbi = contractRaw.ContractBuilder.ContractABI.FindFunctionABIFromInputData(data);
+            var outputList = new FunctionCallDecoder().DecodeDefaultData(resultData.HexToBytes(), functionAbi.OutputParameters);
+            var resultList = outputList.Select(x => x.Result).ToList();
+            var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(resultList);
+            return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            return function.DecodeTypeOutput<T>(resultData);
+        }
     }
 
     /// <summary>