Proposal: New flag "--empty-objects-ignore"

[hexxone]

Description

The current problem with --empty-objects-unknown is, that Empty objects are either fully respresented as "never" or as "any". Even though it might be preferrable to just completely ignore them.

E.g.: assume I have the following Entity structure which I expose on a Controller...

public abstract class PolicyEntity<TEntity> : IEntity
{
    public abstract int Id { get; set; }
}

public class Plant : PolicyEntity<Plant>
{
    public override int Id { get; set; }
}

[HttpGet("Get/{id}")]
public ActionResult<Plant>? Get([FromRoute] int id)
{
    // ...
}

Then I convert this to equivalent Typescript Code and get something like this:

export type components = {
    schemas: {
         PolicyEntity_Plant_: Record<string, unknown>;
         Plant: components['schemas']['PolicyEntity_Plant_'] & ({
            /** Format: int32 */
            Id: number;
       }
   }
}

which essentially means, that Schema<'Plant'>.Id and all other Properties are ALWAYS any.

Proposal

Instead, there should be aflag to fully ignore empty objects and "strip" them from the source, instead of having them as eiher Record<string, unknown> OR Record<string, never>.

Extra

Might be verry similar to this issue and provide a possible solution for: #1520

• I’m willing to open a PR (see CONTRIBUTING.md)