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Emit metadata with union constituents #19154
Description
Right now, when we emit meta data of one property that is defined as:
class A {
@Property()
p1: 's1' | 's2';
}We emit the metadata as:
__metadata("design:type", String)So, whoever is using this metadata cannot know the literal types of p1. A library author has to decorate the literal types s1 and s2 in order to access these literal types:
class A {
@Property(strings: ['s1', 's2'])
p1: 's1' | 's2';
}Why don't we just emit it as an array instead?
__metadata("design:type", ['union', 's1', 's2'])Related to:
#12703
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mhegazy commentedon Oct 14, 2017
The metadata provided are not meant to be a reflective runtime type system. you can find more discussion about this in #3060 and #3628
mhegazy commentedon Oct 30, 2017
Automatically closing this issue for housekeeping purposes. The issue labels indicate that it is unactionable at the moment or has already been addressed.