Check in compile-time that javascript / typescript objects correspond to C# object

Question

We are developing a Web API RESTful service in C# and UI in React + Typescript.

After I renamed/add/remove some proeprties in C# REstAPI models the web UI stopped to work, because I forgot to rename it in UI.

Futhermore it is for me almost impossible to find all usage of API calls of such objects.

I would like to configure strongly typed, compiled time checked system that typescript object will be mapped somehow to C# object and compiler will check it.

I can image that I (programmer) would mark javascript/typescript object with some metadata (C# namespace and class name).

How can I do that.

Have you tried writing your own compiler? :)

fstam
– fstam

2018-11-17 07:23:42 +00:00
Commented Nov 17, 2018 at 7:23 — fstam
– fstam, Commented Nov 17, 2018 at 7:23

Alchemy · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-17 07:35:13Z

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The key to resolving this issue is to abstract out a level to a configurable multi-language definition. From that definition you will be able generate both c# and typescript object definitions. The two major type descriptive options are Protos , and OpenApi from Google/Microsoft respectively.

This allows your workflow to become:

Change the type configuration.
Build the type configuration into the C# and Typescript definitions.
Build the C# and Typescript libraries.

This ensures the object definitions are always in sync as the C# and Typescript libraries can depend directly on the auto-generated code.

answered Nov 17, 2018 at 7:35

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