[feat] Prevent js file use from server configuration object

[Ahryman40k]

As discussed in Issue #212, please find here the corresponding pull request.
So, if you agree with adding such feature, you could merge it.

• Code is fixed and prettify
• Tests are updated
• Documentation is updated

Hope I did well according your contributing note and nothing were missed.
Best regards,
Ahry

[zeevo]

Thanks! Will be looking through this.

[zeevo]

Hi there. I've been pretty busy lately. However, I'm not sure about the idea of extending the config object to include functions. There is probably a better way, and I will be playing around with TypeScript project that includes node-fhir-server-core to really investigate this. I appreciate your analysis though!

[Ahryman40k]

I may understand your point of view and of course contrary to the sample I provided, people can provide metadata builder function instead of bare metadata object. It also means that we can dynamically create metadata, a functionality that is missing right now. We can only create them statically at server start.
Moreover it's useful when including you're library into a typescript project not to reference JavaScript files, and it's the main point.

[zeevo]

@Ahryman40k Do you have a sample TypeScript project somewhere where I can see this fix in action?

[Ahryman40k]

I'm writing a typescript library that encapsulate your own as helper to produce FHIR microservices quickly, but it still under development.
Capabilities route already works and metadata are dynamically added.
I try to share you a sample next week because I'm currently in holiday until next year.
Thank you for your interest.

[Ahryman40k]

Please find a sample there: https://github.com/Ahryman40k/asymmetrik-sample
A README file is present to run sample.

Don't forget it's a POC and not a real development project.

[zeevo]

Thanks @Ahryman40k ! I'll be looking at this to really understand the problem.

[Ahryman40k]

@zeevosec Have you take a look ?

[zeevo]

Hi there @Ahryman40k

I have been super busy with other projects lately. I do understand the issue with dynamically requiring files within TypeScript projects. If I get around to it, we may write some kind of TypeScript compatible Server config mechanism, but until then you may have to just maintain a fork.

Sorry!

[ZuSe]

Would love to see this merged. We are using your great lib in one of our typescript based projects. Would help a lot to maintain a clean code base and setup tests.

[Ahryman40k]

Me too ;)

[zeevo]

Hey I am going to revisit this and probably merge it.

[Ahryman40k]

Do I need to sync with your repo then resubmit my work ?
I know I did it long time ago.

[luan-dev]

Hi, I am happy to merge this PR if you can resolve the merge conflicts

[finaldzn]

Hello any updated for implemeting typescript to the project ?

Thank you