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Serialization (preferably through json)

See original GitHub issue

Which package is the feature request for?

discord.js

Feature

A way to serialize a reference class and rebuild it on the other side.

Ideal solution or implementation

someFunctionToPassThroughPipe(message.toJSON())

messageRecieved = discord.Message.from(data)

Alternative solutions or implementations

I could do it in my own use case, however I would rather just see it as an official feature rather than a hacky solution that could break on the next update.

Other context

This should have been implemented well before v10.x.x, just saying. It’s a rest api there is nothing critical about any of these data wrappers. Albeit makes it easier to work with in localized projects it gets more complicated when you can’t send the real thing.

Issue Analytics

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Created a year ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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kyranetcommented, Aug 10, 2022

The new package, @discordjs/structures (implemented by #8417), will implement a way to get an approximate of Discord’s raw data back in the toJSON() methods. The idea is to make discord.js use those classes and extend them to add the REST methods.

I hope that addresses your request @parmleyhunt.

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kyranetcommented, Aug 10, 2022

It’ll be approximate because 1.0 becomes 1, and 2022-08-10T14:11:23.529000+00:00 becomes 2022-08-10T14:11:23.529Z.

Other than that, the data returned by /structures is completely valid and near-identical with what Discord sends us.

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