Schema definition circular references #3472
Description
Hi
Please see sinclairzx81/typebox#844 for reference.
The solution offered unfortunately won't work in the context of feathers since none of the other functions like the TReference type produced for schema.
For example getValidator wants schema:
schema: TObject<TProperties> | TIntersect<TObject<TProperties>[]> | TUnion<TObject<TProperties>[]>
Is there any other suggested way of defining references to other schemas that reference each other that will work?
Reference to my definitions as mentioned in the post above:
// NOTE: these schemas are defined in different files and are displayed here as is for reference, thus I'm not getting errors like:
// Block-scoped variable 'accountSchema' used before its declaration.ts
const userSchema = Type.Object(
{
id: Type.String({ format: 'uuid' }),
email: Type.String({ format: 'email' }),
account: Type.Ref(accountSchema)
},
{ $id: 'User', additionalProperties: false }
)
const accountSchema = Type.Object(
{
id: Type.String({ format: 'uuid' }),
name: Type.String(),
users: Type.Array(Type.Ref(userSchema)),
locations: Type.Array(Type.Ref(locationSchema))
},
{ $id: 'Account', additionalProperties: false }
)
The provided solution that does not solve the issue for me in feathers:
const userSchemaBuilder = <T extends TSchema>(reference: T) =>
Type.Object({
id: Type.String({ format: "uuid" }),
email: Type.String({ format: "email" }),
account: Type.Optional(reference),
});
const accountSchemaBuilder = <T extends TSchema>(reference: T) =>
Type.Object({
id: Type.String({ format: "uuid" }),
name: Type.String(),
users: Type.Optional(Type.Array(reference)),
});
const userSchema = Type.Recursive((This) =>
userSchemaBuilder(accountSchemaBuilder(This))
);
const accountSchema = Type.Recursive((This) =>
accountSchemaBuilder(userSchemaBuilder(This))
);
type User = Static<typeof userSchema>;
type Account = Static<typeof accountSchema>;
Would appreciate some help on how to make this work!