Made BaseJsonHandler strongly typed. Moved DTO entities to their own DTO namespace in Model.

MediaBrowser.Model/DTO/ApiBaseItem.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using MediaBrowser.Model.Entities;
+using MediaBrowser.Model.Users;
+
+namespace MediaBrowser.Model.DTO
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This is a concrete class that the UI can use to deserialize
+    /// It is flat in the sense that it will be used regardless of the type of BaseItem involved
+    /// </summary>
+    public class ApiBaseItem : BaseItem
+    {
+        // Series properties
+        public string Status { get; set; }
+        public IEnumerable<DayOfWeek> AirDays { get; set; }
+        public string AirTime { get; set; }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This is the full return object when requesting an Item
+    /// </summary>
+    public class BaseItemWrapper<T>
+        where T : BaseItem
+    {
+        public T Item { get; set; }
+
+        public UserItemData UserItemData { get; set; }
+
+        public IEnumerable<BaseItemWrapper<T>> Children { get; set; }
+
+        public bool IsFolder { get; set; }
+
+        public Guid? ParentId { get; set; }
+
+        public string Type { get; set; }
+
+        public bool IsType(Type type)
+        {
+            return IsType(type.Name);
+        }
+
+        public bool IsType(string type)
+        {
+            return Type.Equals(type, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+        }
+
+        public IEnumerable<PersonInfo> People { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// If the item does not have a logo, this will hold the Id of the Parent that has one.
+        /// </summary>
+        public Guid? ParentLogoItemId { get; set; }
+
+        public Guid? ParentBackdropItemId { get; set; }
+
+        public int? ParentBackdropCount { get; set; }
+    }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This is strictly for convenience so the UI's don't have to use the verbose generic syntax of BaseItemWrapper<ApiBaseItem>
+    /// </summary>
+    public class ApiBaseItemWrapper : BaseItemWrapper<ApiBaseItem>
+    {
+    }
+}

MediaBrowser.Model/DTO/CategoryInfo.cs

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+
+namespace MediaBrowser.Model.DTO
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This is a stub class used by the api to get IBN types along with their item counts
+    /// </summary>
+    public class CategoryInfo<T>
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The actual genre, year, studio, etc
+        /// </summary>
+        public T Item { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The number of items that have the genre, year, studio, etc
+        /// </summary>
+        public int ItemCount { get; set; }
+    }
+}

MediaBrowser.Model/DTO/PluginInfo.cs

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+using System;
+
+namespace MediaBrowser.Model.DTO
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// This is a serializable stub class that is used by the api to provide information about installed plugins.
+    /// </summary>
+    public class PluginInfo
+    {
+        public string Name { get; set; }
+        public string Path { get; set; }
+        public bool Enabled { get; set; }
+        public bool DownloadToUI { get; set; }
+        public DateTime ConfigurationDateLastModified { get; set; }
+        public Version Version { get; set; }
+    }
+}