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•Created by pneutam on 11/18/2024 in #workers-help

How to return a plain object and not a stub from a Worker with RPC binding?

I'm working with a Cloudflare Worker that is called from a Cloudflare Pages project using Services Binding + RPC. I'd like to be able to configure or convert a plain object returned from a target instance to be serialized to an object and not be returned as a stub. As an example, consider the following projects: TYPE LIB: Standalone library with types I want to reference in other projects.

export type MyObject = {
  name: string;
  description: string;
}

export type MyObject = {
  name: string;
  description: string;
}

SHARED WORKER: Worker providing services via service bindings and RPC.

export default class extends WorkerEntrypoint {
  async myStore(): Promise<myStore> {
    return new MyStoreTarget();
  }
);

class MyStoreTarget extends RpcTarget {
  async findMyObject(name: string) : Promise<MyObject | null> { // references TYPE LIB
  return { name: 'Test name', description: 'Test description' };
}

export default class extends WorkerEntrypoint {
  async myStore(): Promise<myStore> {
    return new MyStoreTarget();
  }
);

class MyStoreTarget extends RpcTarget {
  async findMyObject(name: string) : Promise<MyObject | null> { // references TYPE LIB
  return { name: 'Test name', description: 'Test description' };
}

END APP: The calling code to the shared worker.

const worker = event.platform.env.STORE_WORKER; // references SHARED WORKER

const target = await worker.myStore();

const myobj : MyObject = await target.findMyObject('Test name'); // references TYPE LIB

const worker = event.platform.env.STORE_WORKER; // references SHARED WORKER

const target = await worker.myStore();

const myobj : MyObject = await target.findMyObject('Test name'); // references TYPE LIB

When I try the above, it appears to return myobj as a stub, and TypeScript in VSCode complains as the types don't match. Further, it would seem any reference to myobj properties would be executed as RPC calls which is inefficient. Is there a way to configure or convert myobj efficiently so that it is a plain object matching the MyObject type? Thanks in advance!

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