Ran into an issue serializing/de-serializing pokemonDTO data.
Basically, when trying to understand what abilities a pokemon has, it would always come back in a list. For example, Bulbasaur's abilities were stored as so:
bulbasaur.abilities[Array(2), Array(2)]
There were 2 issues with this, the first being that the raw arrays didn't have any key information until digging into them by a layer:
bulbasaur.abilities[0][0].name -> how to fetch the name "overgrow"
bulbasaur.abilities[1][0].name -> how to fetch the name "chlorophyll"
While the second issue was that the isHidden property was not labeled. It was just the second element of the array.
bulbasaur.abilities[0][1] -> false -> indicates that "overgrow" is not a hidden ability.
bulbasaur.abilities[1][1] -> true -> indicates that "chlorophyll" is a hidden ability.
The new method has abilities stored instead as objects. Now when we fetch this info, the ability and isHidden property are labeled.
Ran into an issue serializing/de-serializing pokemonDTO data.
Basically, when trying to understand what abilities a pokemon has, it would always come back in a list. For example, Bulbasaur's abilities were stored as so:
bulbasaur.abilities[Array(2), Array(2)]There were 2 issues with this, the first being that the raw arrays didn't have any key information until digging into them by a layer:
bulbasaur.abilities[0][0].name-> how to fetch the name "overgrow"bulbasaur.abilities[1][0].name-> how to fetch the name "chlorophyll" While the second issue was that theisHiddenproperty was not labeled. It was just the second element of the array.bulbasaur.abilities[0][1] -> false-> indicates that "overgrow" is not a hidden ability.bulbasaur.abilities[1][1] -> true-> indicates that "chlorophyll" is a hidden ability.The new method has abilities stored instead as objects. Now when we fetch this info, the ability and
isHiddenproperty are labeled.bulbasaur.abilities[0].ability.name-> "overgrow"bulbasaur.abilities[0].isHidden->falseShould help clarify things when working with DTO data that's cached or stored elsewhere.