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Created by mshafir on 3/12/2025 in #questions
How to combine multiple configure() calls
I noticed that if I call configure multiple times each next call wipes out the previous metadata. Here's a test example 
test("arktype config", () => {
    const t = type("string")
        .configure({ description: "a test" })
        .configure({ alias: "cool" });
    expect(t.toJSON()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
        {
          "domain": "string",
          "meta": {
            "alias": "cool",
          },
        }
    `);
});
test("arktype config", () => {
    const t = type("string")
        .configure({ description: "a test" })
        .configure({ alias: "cool" });
    expect(t.toJSON()).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
        {
          "domain": "string",
          "meta": {
            "alias": "cool",
          },
        }
    `);
});
Using .describe() has the same results. Notice that the meta only has the alias, not the description. Is there a way to instead have configure chain the request so it doesn't override prior metadata? I know in theory it could all happen in one configure, but in my codebase there are multiple layers so that in some cases I want to build on another type and just add some metadata to it.
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