[Question] Can't extends generated classes. about protobuf-ts HOT 2 CLOSED

There is a hoisting problem with extending generated classes. Let's say you have this .proto:

message Foo {
   Bar bar = 1;
}

message Bar {
}

Now you extend Bar:

class MyBar extends Bar {
   greet() {
     console.log("hello world")
   }
}

But what happens if you deserialize this?

let foo = Foo.deserialize(data);
foo.bar.greet() 
        ^^^^^

bar will be an instance of Bar, not MyBar. So extending generated classes only works in a very limited way.

from protobuf-ts.

Could you give me some an example of what you want to achieve?

Do you want to add a method to specific types, or do you want to overwrite functionality?

Some well-known-types already have special methods:

I thought about exposing this functionality. So that users can add custom functions to be generated...

from protobuf-ts.