Map primitive types to a custom type (e.g.: long to BigInt)

[nanella]

Hi,
thanks for your awesome library. I've found only one case where I can't find a solution:

The Java API returns a long, which gets represented as a number in typescript per default. Sadly, a number is not enough in this case and I would like to map the type to BigInt. This works seamlessly with the class Long, but I can't get it to work with the primitive type.

Is there any way to configure this? If not, could this be implemented in some way?

[vojtechhabarta]

Hi, you are right, mapping Java long to TypeScript BigInt is not currently possible but it should be possible.
Just for curiosity: how are you parsing numbers in JSON into BigInt?

[nanella]

Since I'm using axios, I'm planning on using transformResponse in combination with a BigInt JSON library to parse the json longs to BigInt. (For a simpler usecase, I could also convert the long to string in the same way if I would be able to map the long to string in the generator configuration.)

[ghost]

I have the same problem, I did fix it with converting to string, but I am interested do you plan on fixing this soon?

[vojtechhabarta]

There was already support for custom mapping of arrays of primitive types (done in #636) so I just made it work also for this case.

[vojtechhabarta]

Released in v2.32.889.