def read_dict_from_properties(desired_type: Type[dict], file_object: TextIOBase,
                              logger: Logger, conversion_finder: ConversionFinder, **kwargs) -> Dict[str, Any]:
    """
    Helper method to read a dictionary from a .properties file (java-style) using jprops.
    Since jprops does not provide automatic handling for boolean and numbers, this tries to add the feature.

    :param file_object:
    :return:
    """

    # right now jprops relies on a byte stream. So we convert back our nicely decoded Text stream to a unicode
    # byte stream ! (urgh)
    class Unicoder:
        def __init__(self, file_object):
            self.f = file_object

        def __iter__(self):
            return self

        def __next__(self):
            line = self.f.__next__()
            return line.encode(encoding='utf-8')

    res = jprops.load_properties(Unicoder(file_object))

    # first automatic conversion of strings > numbers
    res = {key: try_parse_num_and_booleans(val) for key, val in res.items()}

    # further convert if required
    return ConversionFinder.convert_collection_values_according_to_pep(res, desired_type, conversion_finder, logger, 
                                                                       **kwargs)
Helper method to read a dictionary from a .properties file (java-style) using jprops.
    Since jprops does not provide automatic handling for boolean and numbers, this tries to add the feature.

    :param file_object:
    :return: