Default type conversions

[ghost]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am finding myself having to specifically create a convertUsing mapper for a Date object. It would be really nice if there were defaults for converters.

Describe the solution you'd like
probably a defaultConverters object in the mapper options keyed by type (string, date, number etc)

Describe alternatives you've considered
An alternative could be creating a custom plugin, but it would be nice to have this as a default option as it will happen in multiple projects.

Additional context

[ghost]

I also wanted to add that when adding a convertUsing configuration, providing the source value does not have intellisense.

[ghost]

bump

[huybn5776]

@HurricaneDancer How about try to implement this feature yourself and create am PR?

[nartc]

@HurricaneDancer I am currently on vacation. I'll take a look as soon as I'm back.

[nartc]

@HurricaneDancer so you would like to see a pre-defined converters exported from AutoMapper? Would you be able to provide a list of what you'd like to see?

[ghost]

@nartc not pre defined ones, but the ability to configure default converters by type. So if I have a Date type, I would want to make a converter that returns Date.valueOf. Then automappers default behavior for the date type is to convert it to the valueOf. Hopefully that makes sense

[nartc]

@HurricaneDancer Like TypeConverter from .NET AutoMapper? That one is going to be hard 😝 mainly because of TypeScript Reflection capability. But I'll think about it, at least for primitive types like String, Number, Boolean, and Date

[nartc]

@HurricaneDancer give v6.0.0 a try. Documentations are here https://automapperts.netlify.app/docs/mapping-configuration/custom-type-converter
type converters are still pretty rudimentary so expect bugs. I'll be converting this over to a Discussion instead

[nartc]

@HurricaneDancer I’ve just noticed you have different naming conventions as well which I didn’t test if type converters work with naming conventiond yet. Feel free to let me know if it works.

[ghost]

sure, will do

[nartc]

https://github.com/nartc/mapper/blob/main/packages/integration-test/src/lib/with-classes/map-type-converter.spec.ts It works!