Add overload to deserialize GetBulkStateAsync item values

src/Dapr.Client/BulkStateItem.cs

@@ -49,4 +49,42 @@ public BulkStateItem(string key, string value, string etag)
         /// </summary>
         public string ETag { get; }
     }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Represents a state object returned from a bulk get state operation where the value has
+    /// been deserialized to the specified type.
+    /// </summary>
+    public readonly struct BulkStateItem<TValue>
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="BulkStateItem"/> class.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="key">The state key.</param>
+        /// <param name="value">The typed value.</param>
+        /// <param name="etag">The ETag.</param>
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// Application code should not need to create instances of <see cref="BulkStateItem" />.
+        /// </remarks>
+        public BulkStateItem(string key, TValue value, string etag)
+        {
+            this.Key = key;
+            this.Value = value;
+            this.ETag = etag;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the state key.
+        /// </summary>
+        public string Key { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets the deserialized value of the indicated type.
+        /// </summary>
+        public TValue Value { get; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Get the ETag.
+        /// </summary>
+        public string ETag { get; }
+    }
 }

src/Dapr.Client/DaprClient.cs

@@ -714,6 +714,20 @@ public abstract Task<TResponse> InvokeMethodGrpcAsync<TRequest, TResponse>(
         /// <returns>A <see cref="Task{IReadOnlyList}" /> that will return the list of values when the operation has completed.</returns>
         public abstract Task<IReadOnlyList<BulkStateItem>> GetBulkStateAsync(string storeName, IReadOnlyList<string> keys, int? parallelism, IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> metadata = default, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets a list of deserialized values associated with the <paramref name="keys" /> from the Dapr state store. This overload should be used
+        /// if you expect the values of all the retrieved items to match the shape of the indicated <typeparam name="TValue"/>. If you expect that
+        /// the values may differ in type from one another, do not specify the type parameter and instead use the original <see cref="GetBulkStateAsync"/> method
+        /// so the serialized string values will be returned instead.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="storeName">The name of state store to read from.</param>
+        /// <param name="keys">The list of keys to get values for.</param>
+        /// <param name="parallelism">The number of concurrent get operations the Dapr runtime will issue to the state store. a value equal to or smaller than 0 means max parallelism.</param>
+        /// <param name="metadata">A collection of metadata key-value pairs that will be provided to the state store. The valid metadata keys and values are determined by the type of state store used.</param>
+        /// <param name="cancellationToken">A <see cref="CancellationToken" /> that can be used to cancel the operation.</param>
+        /// <returns>A <see cref="Task{IReadOnlyList}" /> that will return the list of deserialized values when the operation has completed.</returns>
+        public abstract Task<IReadOnlyList<BulkStateItem<TValue>>> GetBulkStateAsync<TValue>(string storeName, IReadOnlyList<string> keys, int? parallelism, IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> metadata = default, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default);
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Saves a list of <paramref name="items" /> to the Dapr state store.
         /// </summary>

src/Dapr.Client/DaprClientGrpc.cs

@@ -597,16 +597,54 @@ public override async Task<TResponse> InvokeMethodGrpcAsync<TRequest, TResponse>
 
         #region State Apis
 
+        /// <inheritdoc />
         public override async Task<IReadOnlyList<BulkStateItem>> GetBulkStateAsync(string storeName, IReadOnlyList<string> keys, int? parallelism, IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> metadata = default, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+        {
+            var rawBulkState = await GetBulkStateRawAsync(storeName, keys, parallelism, metadata, cancellationToken);
+
+            var bulkResponse = new List<BulkStateItem>();
+            foreach (var item in rawBulkState)
+            {
+                bulkResponse.Add(new BulkStateItem(item.Key, item.Value.ToStringUtf8(), item.Etag));
+            }
+
+            return bulkResponse;
+        }
+
+        /// <inheritdoc/> 
+        public override async Task<IReadOnlyList<BulkStateItem<TValue>>> GetBulkStateAsync<TValue>(string storeName,
+            IReadOnlyList<string> keys, int? parallelism, IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> metadata = default,
+            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+        {
+            var rawBulkState = await GetBulkStateRawAsync(storeName, keys, parallelism, metadata, cancellationToken);
+
+            var bulkResponse = new List<BulkStateItem<TValue>>();
+            foreach (var item in rawBulkState)
+            {
+                var deserializedValue =
+                    TypeConverters.FromJsonByteString<TValue>(item.Value, this.JsonSerializerOptions);
+                bulkResponse.Add(new BulkStateItem<TValue>(item.Key, deserializedValue, item.Etag));
+            }
+
+            return bulkResponse;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Retrieves the bulk state data, but rather than deserializing the values, leaves the specific handling
+        /// to the public callers of this method to avoid duplicate deserialization.
+        /// </summary>
+        private async Task<IReadOnlyList<(string Key, string Etag, ByteString Value)>> GetBulkStateRawAsync(
+            string storeName,
+            IReadOnlyList<string> keys, int? parallelism, IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> metadata = default,
+            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
         {
             ArgumentVerifier.ThrowIfNullOrEmpty(storeName, nameof(storeName));
             if (keys.Count == 0)
                 throw new ArgumentException("keys do not contain any elements");
 
             var envelope = new Autogenerated.GetBulkStateRequest()
             {
-                StoreName = storeName,
-                Parallelism = parallelism ?? default
+                StoreName = storeName, Parallelism = parallelism ?? default
             };
 
             if (metadata != null)
@@ -628,18 +666,20 @@ public override async Task<IReadOnlyList<BulkStateItem>> GetBulkStateAsync(strin
             }
             catch (RpcException ex)
             {
-                throw new DaprException("State operation failed: the Dapr endpoint indicated a failure. See InnerException for details.", ex);
+                throw new DaprException(
+                    "State operation failed: the Dapr endpoint indicated a failure. See InnerException for details.",
+                    ex);
             }
 
-            var bulkResponse = new List<BulkStateItem>();
+            var bulkResponse = new List<(string Key, string Etag, ByteString Value)>();
             foreach (var item in response.Items)
             {
-                bulkResponse.Add(new BulkStateItem(item.Key, item.Data.ToStringUtf8(), item.Etag));
+                bulkResponse.Add((item.Key, item.Etag, item.Data));
             }
 
             return bulkResponse;
         }
-
+        
         /// <inheritdoc/>
         public override async Task<TValue> GetStateAsync<TValue>(
             string storeName,

test/Dapr.Client.Test/StateApiTest.cs

@@ -75,6 +75,30 @@ public async Task GetBulkStateAsync_CanReadState()
             state.Should().HaveCount(1);
         }
 
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task GetBulkStateAsync_CanReadDeserializedState()
+        {
+            await using var client = TestClient.CreateForDaprClient();
+
+            var key = "test";
+            var request = await client.CaptureGrpcRequestAsync(async daprClient =>
+            {
+                return await daprClient.GetBulkStateAsync<Widget>("testStore", new List<string>() {key}, null);
+            });
+
+            // Create Response & Respond
+            const string size = "small";
+            const string color = "yellow";
+            var data = new Widget() {Size = size, Color = color};
+            var envelope = MakeGetBulkStateResponse<Widget>(key, data);
+            var state = await request.CompleteWithMessageAsync(envelope);
+
+            // Get response and validate
+            state.Should().HaveCount(1);
+            state[0].Value.Size.Should().Match(size);
+            state[0].Value.Color.Should().Match(color);
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public async Task GetBulkStateAsync_WrapsRpcException()
         {