CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[7.2.0] - 2023-10-14

Added

• Support for polymorphic serialization based on interface types.

[7.1.1] - 2023-08-19

Fixed

• Extraction of type extension metadata when it was not defined.
• Extraction of property extension metadata when it was not defined.

[7.1.0] - 2023-08-18

Added

• Type extension metadata.
• Property extension metadata.

[7.0.1] - 2023-08-10

Fixed

• Invalid ES5 lazy type resolvers.

[7.0.0] - 2023-06-25

Added

• Strongly typed custom options.
• Performance improvements when using custom options.

Removed

• Old custom data option.

Migrating from previous version

• Replace old custom data configurations with newly introduced strongly typed custom options.

[6.0.0] - 2023-03-22

Added

• Fluent api for declarative configuration.
• Property metadata sorters.
• Inject metadata sorters.
• Stable json stringify and parse functions.
• Any and unknown type serializers.
• Modules support.
• Performance improvements.

Changed

• If property type argument is not configured then no error will be thrown and property will be serialized as unknown.
• Weak reference maps changed to regular maps to allow more extension points.
• Reference handler names to be more self descriptive.

Migrating from previous version

• Replace old declarative configuration calls with newly introduced fluent api.
• You can still use raw declarative api through the options by adapting method calls.

[5.0.0] - 2022-07-31

Added

• Preserve null option.
• Performance improvements.

Changed

• Simplify handling of object references inside serializers.
• Separate modules are now merged into one to reduce final application bundle size and simplify usage.

Removed

• Helper decorators as they silently increase final application bundle size and reduce performance on startup for the end user.

Migrating from previous version

• Replace all separate module imports to @dipscope/type-manager.
• Remove all helper decorators and use configure options with the same names from the main Type, Property and Inject decorators.

[4.1.1] - 2022-05-30

Changed

• Moved source maps into separate file and reduced production bundle size.

[4.1.0] - 2022-05-18

Added

• Getters for serialized and deserialized default value in metadata.
• Decorators and options to define serialized and deserialized default value explicitly.

[4.0.4] - 2022-05-15

Changed

• Set webpack global output object to this.

[4.0.3] - 2022-05-07

Added

• Getters of serialized and deserialized property names for property metadata.

Removed

• Definition logic of serialized and deserialized property names from type serializer.

Fixed

• Serialized property name was displayed in log messages.

[4.0.2] - 2022-05-01

Changed

• Used symbol instead of string based key to store type metadata.
• Avoid complete reset of custom data by providing null as argument.
• Code style improvements.

[4.0.1] - 2021-08-01

Changed

• Custom data options are now behave like built in configure options.
• Path reference handler is now using path traversal instead of direct evaluation for resolving references.

[4.0.0] - 2021-03-24

Added

• Polymorphic types support.
• Enums support.
• Accessors support.
• Multiple runtime configurations support.

Changed

• Newly introduced TypeFn is now used instead of TypeCtor in configure methods due to adding polymorphic types support.
• Static methods of TypeManager now return static instance to enable method chaining.

Migrating from previous version

• Replace TypeCtor with TypeFn if you are using declarative configuration.

[3.0.0] - 2021-03-06

Added

• Generics support.
• Circular object reference support.
• Short property declaration syntax.
• Naming convention support.
• Module separation.
• New set of serializers.

Changed

• Core types, interfaces and classes moved to a core module to keep main namespace clean.
• All decorators are now available from the main namespace.

Fixed

• Invalid implicit conversion of boolean serializer.
• Properties were not assigned during deserialization if they already have initialized value.

Removed

• Multiple decorator and related options as they are no longer required.

Migrating from previous version

• Replace all core type and interface imports from @dipscope/type-manager to @dipscope/type-manager/core.
• Replace all helper decorator imports from @dipscope/type-manager/helpers to @dipscope/type-manager.
• Change all places where Property decorator is used to declare an array of types to a proper generic variant.
• If you are using TypeSerializer, TypeFactory, TypeInjector helper decorators or interfaces then rename them to Serializer, Factory, Injector accordingly.
• If you are using typeAlias or typeResolver property options replace them to typeArgument.

[2.0.4] - 2021-02-13

Changed

• Improved type serializer context to avoid instance of call in serializers.

[2.0.3] - 2021-02-13

Fixed

• Broken helpers module.

[2.0.2] - 2021-02-11

Fixed

• Broken module resolvers.

[2.0.1] - 2021-02-11

Fixed

• Broken imports from newly introduced namespaces.

[2.0.0] - 2021-02-10

Added

• Dependency injection support.
• Immutable types support.
• Type hint support.
• Custom data support.

Changed

• Type serializer now an inteface.
• Some helper decorators renamed to match option names.
• Helper decorators moved to their own namespace.

Migrating from previous version

• Replace extension with implementation for custom type serializers.
• If your custom serializers uses implicit conversion make it part of the serialize and deserialize methods. You can check if it should be used based on newly introduced serializer context.
• If you are using Serializer helper decorator then rename it to TypeSerializer.
• For all helper decorators change imports to @dipscope/type-manager/helpers. Now they are located in their own namespace.

[1.3.0] - 2021-01-20

Added

• Type manager methods to configure each option individually.

Fixed

• Type options were not applied after changes at runtime.

[1.2.2] - 2020-12-25

Fixed

• Type error when trying to serialize and deserialize object with null values.
• Explicit deserialization of properties.

[1.2.1] - 2020-12-24

Fixed

• Broken exports for browser based applications.

[1.2.0] - 2020-12-23

Added

• Multiple property option to indicate that certain property is an array when using without reflect metadata.

Fixed

• Type extraction using reflect metadata.

[1.1.0] - 2020-12-22

Added

• Global type options.
• Default value definition for types and properties.
• Implicit conversion for types and properties.
• Type manager stringify and parse methods for working with JSON.

[1.0.0] - 2020-12-16

Added

• Type manager for serializing and deserializing objects.
• Decorator annotations for type and property metadata.
• Declarative configuration for type and property metadata.
• Custom serializer support.
• Reflect metadata support.