v8.0.0

Added

• Support for lazy parent type and interface inheritance.
• Performance on large object graphs is up to 3 times faster.

Changed

• The metadata is now read-only and configuration must be done using the provided API.
• Declaring and retrieving user custom options has been simplified.
• Property customOptions was replaced with customValueMap.
• Property parentTypeFns was replaced with parentTypeArguments.
• Custom context is now part of the metadata.

Migrating from previous version

• Rename customOptions to customValueMap and wrap your configuration array into map.
• Rename parentTypeFns to parentTypeArguments if you have this option declared on your type.

v7.2.1

Fixed

• TypeScript 5 decorators do not work.
• Circular loop when using multiple inheritance through the decorator type options.

v7.2.0

Added

• Support for polymorphic serialization based on interface types.

v7.1.1

Fixed

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

v7.1.0

Added

• Type extension metadata.
• Property extension metadata.

v7.0.1

Fixed

• Invalid ES5 lazy type resolvers.

v7.0.0

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.

v6.0.0

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.

v5.0.0

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.

v4.1.1

Changed

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