Support for "pure object references"

[emilianodenis]

Hi,

A nice to have would be a support for pure JSON references.

I mean objects that are simply { $ref: 1 }.

An example:

@jsonObject
export class A {
  constructor() {}

  @jsonMember
  public name: string;

  @jsonMember
  public id: number;
}

@jsonObject
export class B {
  constructor() {}

  @jsonMember
  public prop1: A;

  @jsonMember
  public prop2: A;
}

    const obj: any = {
      $id: 1,
      prop1: {
        $id: 2,
        name: "test1",
        id: 100
      },
      prop2: {
        $id: 3,
        name: "test2",
        id: 101
      }
    };

    const objRef: any = {
      $id: 4,
      prop1: {
        $id: 5,
        name: "test1",
        id: 100
      },
      prop2: { $ref: 5 }
    };

    const res1 = TypedJSON.parse(obj, B);
    const res2 = TypedJSON.parse(objRef, B);

In this case, res1 is properly serialized. But for res2, prop1 is fine while prop2 is an empty object.

Stackblitz with a more complete example: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-ivy-yoqexv