support for type information using typescript decorators ? #91

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1. gfx commented on Nov 19, 2019

   

   gfx

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   Thanks. This seems an interesting idea, but decorators are not standardized yet, so I won't implement them for the time being.
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3. rmja commented on Feb 19, 2021

   

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   @prunelsigma I have made a very basic version of this over here: https://github.com/utiliread/ur-msgpack
   Feel free to use any part of it.

   See the tests for example use: https://github.com/utiliread/ur-msgpack/blob/master/src/deserialize.spec.ts

   For example:

   class ModelWithArrayKey {
       @msgpackKey(0)
       number!: number;
       @msgpackKey(1)
       string!: string;
       @msgpackKey(2)
       numberArray!: number[];
       @msgpackKey(3)
       stringArray!: string[];
   }
   
   const result = deserialize(ModelWithArrayKey, decode(encode([1337, "hello", [1, 2], ["a", "b"]])))
   
4. camnewnham commented on Mar 2, 2022

   

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   I've created a similar library which supports unions (similar to MessagePack C#), over at https://github.com/camnewnham/msgpack-decorators

   Example definition:

   abstract class Animal {
     @key(0)
     name: string;
     @key(1)
     legs: number;
   }
   
   @union(0, Animal)
   class Lizard extends Animal{
     @key(3)
     scales: number
   }
   
   @union(1, Animal)
   class Bird extends Animal {
     @key(4)
     feathers: number
   }
   

   Example usage:

   const animal: Animal = new Lizard();
   animal.legs = 2;
   
   const encoded:Uint8Array = encode(animal, Animal);
   const decoded:Animal = decode(encoded, Animal);
   

   This is a peer to @msgpack/msgpack - in future it would be more efficient to fork and integrate directly, and even better would be codegen like protobufjs.