Support for nested properties

[micheleriva]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As for now, Lyra does not support nested properties. Thus, the following code will break:

import { lyra } from '@nearfom/lyra';

const movieDB = new Lyra({
  schema: {
    title: 'string',
    director: 'string',
    plot: 'string',
    year: 'number',
    isFavorite: 'boolean',
    cast: { // <-------- objects are not supported yet
      director: 'string',
      leading: 'string'
    }
  }
});

We should grant support for nested properties to Lyra

[DanieleFedeli]

Can I pick this up? I promise nothing since I never looked at the source code but I would like to try it

[micheleriva]

Go for it 🙂

[DanieleFedeli]

Schema type is not propagated throughout Lyra instance. Is this a design choice?

[micheleriva]

What do you mean by that?

[DanieleFedeli]

I mean when I create an instance with a specific schema like that:

const db = new Lyra({ schema: { quote: "string",  author: "string" }});

The insert method does not inherit the type from the schema passed So If I do:

await db.insert({ nonExistingField: "A_RANDOM_STRING"});

I will get INVALID_DOC_SCHEMA, This error is only raised at runtime, but at compile time it is not detected.

[micheleriva]

@DanieleFedeli got it, this is a missing feature that I'd definitely love to have!

[DanieleFedeli]

I can work on that also, but now I am focusing on this one 😆