Entity Property Type Override

[LePips]

• Closes Entity Individual Property Swift Type Override #176

Implements individual property type override. This allows both general property naming and specific property type, mirroring the usage of rename.properties. I consider this an advanced feature, since this allows such fine control over single properties.

Overriding Optional

Since this is an advanced feature and by definition allows one to override the actual property type, it could be thought that his encompasses the entire type which includes whether it is an Optional.

For example, assume that Pet.tag would originally map to String?, but with the below:

entities:
  propertyTypeOverrides:
    Pet.tag: UUID

this would result in Pet.tag mapping to UUID, therefore making this required to the client. This can also happen the other way, making a non-optional property generate as an optional instead. This would also of course be a responsibility to the developer that the types can properly decode/encode.

I don't do this here (Optional is stable through the type override), however I think this should be a consideration.

[LePips]

This is required as a type of [EntityPropertyPair: String] for the propertyTypeOverrides configuration variable results in a decoding error when parsing the config, which is why it is [String: String].

[mgrider]

FWIW, this looks good to me. 🤷‍♂️