I'm hitting an API whose return value is a JSON array containing multiple objects with the same properties, like so:

[
    { "title": "A", "description": "Item A" },
    { "title": "B", "description": "item B" },
    ...
]

Is there any way to read in such a structure using JSONModel? Given a single item I can say [Item initWithString:singleItem error:&error], but I can't exactly say [NSArray<Item> initWithString:items error:&error]...

If there is currently no way to handle this, could one be added? For instance, a class could contain only a single property which is an NSArray, then some pre-defined method could declare how to handle root collections:

@interface ItemList : JSONModel

@property NSArray<Item> items;

@end

@implementation ItemList

- (void) handleJSONRootCollection:(NSArray *)collection
{
    _items = collection;
}

@end

Alternatively, along with initWithString an initWithStringCollection (or similar) could be added which returns an NSArray of the parent type:

NSArray<Item> *items = [Item initWithStringCollection:string];

I'm not sure how easy this would be to implement (or how common of a problem it is), but it's something I ran into