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Note that the
description type is String and not null. After calling toSerializable() on the record the type is string | undefined.My current workaround. I'm not really a fan of using typescript's
as. Hope there is a better solution. 🙏
Also, ideally I'd like to be able to avoid the
map to fix the types (including the productId being string | null | undefined
Hello, the purpose of the
toSerializable method is to convert content to plain JSON so it can be passed to the client, where the JSONData helper function restores the original types.
You can find a reference here: https://xata.io/docs/sdk/typescript/overview#serializing-xata-data-structures
Have you tried JSONData, or is there some other reason why you're needing to fix up the types this way?Hi @kostas. Thanks for getting back to me. 🙏 Yeah, I need to serialize the data to be able to return it from a next.js api route that gets used on the client with
react-query. I need to serialize it remove the xata functions, otherwise next.js throws errors.
I've tried the JSONData helper but all the columns end up being optional. Ie, null | undefined is being added to the type of each column.I think this might call for an enhancement for the
JSONData helper to consider the column constraints (such as notNull) when adding back the types. Would you mind opening an issue in the open source client-ts repo for our SDK team to review? https://github.com/xataio/client-ts/issues I can do it on your behalf, let me know!GitHub
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Thanks @kostas. Yup, I'll try to get that done tomorrow. 👍
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Great, I'll bring it to the dev team's attention. Thanks for the clear description! We'll let you know if anything else is needed.
Awesome! Thanks @kostas! 🙏