Description
What language does this apply to?
JS/TS
Describe the problem you are trying to solve.
In JS, many different libraries expect to work with dictionaries, basically Record<A, B> or lists of these, to do things like state management in single page apps, list operations like find, slice, zip, etc. and more. Having the ability to freely move between a Message and a JSON object would make it MUCH easier to interoperate with different tools.
Currently, my message types get compiled to something like the following:
export class Polygon extends jspb.Message {
// getters and setters here
serializeBinary(): Uint8Array;
toObject(includeInstance?: boolean): Polygon.AsObject;
static toObject(includeInstance: boolean, msg: Polygon): Polygon.AsObject;
static serializeBinaryToWriter(message: Polygon, writer: jspb.BinaryWriter): void;
static deserializeBinary(bytes: Uint8Array): Polygon;
static deserializeBinaryFromReader(message: Polygon, reader: jspb.BinaryReader): Polygon;
}Describe the solution you'd like
static fromObject(from: Polygon.AsObject): Polygon;Describe alternatives you've considered
Writing a generic function to parse the field descriptors, but I don't know enough to make it work correctly, PLUS, it seems like a much better thing to be provided out of the box.
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