RFC: JSONAPIDeSerializer about jsonapi-serializer

[sescobb27]

[sarus]

Seems like it would be a neat addition to be able to go both ways. Is the idea here to take a json api payload and turn it back into the original denormalized input data?

I assume the use case here is in the browser if you're not using something like Ember Data?

[sescobb27]

yeah, I made this PR #43, the idea is to deserialize the payload into plain JS objects from a Req/Res payload body

[SeyZ]

Hey @sescobb27, thanks for your idea!

jsonapi-serializer aims to be totally framework agnostic, and I'm not sure the deserialization stuff can be agnostic. When you deserialize a relationship (e.g. a Plan), you expect to have a Plan object (Mongoose model, sequelize model or whatever).

[sescobb27]

Yeah you are right but at this moment we can return a plain JS Object and let the user handle framework's specific logic, for example, I'm using the fork I made and it works pretty well, the only thing I run after DeSerialize is a normalization step to handle relationships. why? because it should be agnostic but I want to DRY my code as much as I can in order to reuse serialization/deserialization stuff and is easier, at least for me, to adapt a plain nested JS object than a JSON API payload

[sescobb27]

https://gist.github.com/sescobb27/ce0bbe86db395f1464cc

[SeyZ]

Awesome @sescobb27 Thanks for the hard work!

I have an application that uses jsonapi-serializer. For now, I handle the deserialization without this library, by hand. It's a good idea to improve that!

I'll use your branch in my project and I'll give you my feedback.
Thanks again!

[SeyZ]

The deserializer part is now on master. Documentation will be available soon. Meanwhile, check the tests ;-)