@smarterclayton @brendandburns @thockin @dchen1107: If you guys could avoid merging too much stuff before going through this one, that will make my life easier. I don't want to rebase this any more than absolutely necessary...

Other than that concern, rest of it looks fine and I'll be able to give a LGTM

@smarterclayton We could (in the future) make the method useful, like it could return an interface to the JSONBase and let us get rid of all the ResourceVersioner weirdness. That's a simple find-and-replace operation after this PR, so I'd rather get this in and then debate it.

Ok, then next question - can you make this a method on JSONBase instead so you don't need to define it on all the other objects (since JSONBase is embedded)?

@smarterclayton Wouldn't that be nice. Unfortunately, I tried it and that has the effect of forcing not a pointer. There's no way to force pointer on the object you're embedded in by adding a method on a thing that gets embedded. :( :(

The wailing and gnashing of teeth.... ok, LGTM. In the future would like to make the method more meaningful and its presence less odious.

@smarterclayton Thanks for the quick feedback. Self-merging to avoid rebase hell.