More progress on both the Simulation service and the Login service. Both still unfinished.

OpenSim/Framework/Util.cs

@@ -1186,6 +1186,33 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework
             return null;
         }
 
+        public static OSDMap GetOSDMap(string data)
+        {
+            OSDMap args = null;
+            try
+            {
+                OSD buffer;
+                // We should pay attention to the content-type, but let's assume we know it's Json
+                buffer = OSDParser.DeserializeJson(data);
+                if (buffer.Type == OSDType.Map)
+                {
+                    args = (OSDMap)buffer;
+                    return args;
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    // uh?
+                    m_log.Debug(("[UTILS]: Got OSD of unexpected type " + buffer.Type.ToString()));
+                    return null;
+                }
+            }
+            catch (Exception ex)
+            {
+                m_log.Debug("[UTILS]: exception on GetOSDMap " + ex.Message);
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
+
         public static string[] Glob(string path)
         {
             string vol=String.Empty;