Question: Why is map represented as Array in the object representation of a message?

[SebastianStehle]

I think the title aready explains it.

I have a simpe message:

message UserDto {
    // Statistics counters.
    map<string, int64> counters = 8;
}

And the AsObject representation is:

export namespace UserDto {
  export type AsObject = {
    countersMap: Array<[string, number]>,
  }
}

What I don't understand:

• What the Map suffix?
• Why is represented as an array? I understand that it is closer to the wire format, but it would be easier to work with if it would be a simple Object when string keys are used.

e.g.

counters: { [key: string]: number };

[Raiondesu]

Absolutely valid complaint here. This goes against all semantic and sanity norms.

[jonnyreeves]

Agreed, however ts-protoc-gen supplies the typings for the google grpc library so it's not an issue we can resolve (unless I've missed something?) :(

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 at 15:41, Alexey Iskhakov notifications@github.com wrote:

Absolutely valid complaint here. This goes against all semantic and sanity norms.

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