FR: Convenience methods for `get` in `JsonObject` and `JsonArray`
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Description
# Problem solved by the feature
Makes traversing generic `JsonObject` and `JsonArray` objects faster and easier.
# Feature description
I'd like to add convenience methods to `JsonArray` and `JsonObject`, so that each has methods based on their respective `get` to directly get each type (int, double, boolean, etc.), rather than having to go through a `JsonElement` first.
For example, consider the following scenario: I want to retrieve the "name" property of the third employee.
currently, with a generic `JsonObject`, it would look something like this:
```
JsonObject obj;
String name = obj.get("employees").getAsJsonArray()
.get(2).getAsJsonObject()
.get("name").getAsString();
```
versus with my fork, which would allow the following as an alternative:
```
JsonObject obj;
String name = obj.getJsonArray("employees")
.getJsonObject(2)
.getString("name");
```
# Alternatives / workarounds
The alternative is described above in my example.
One final note, I'm more than willing to (and have began to) implement these convenience methods myself; I just want to make sure this is a welcome change before I create and document all of them in a new fork.
Thank you!
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