Include type id in serialized type registry #114
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Currently the position of a type in the list of types corresponds with its lookup id. This is fine for computers but makes human readability of the serialized json a bit more difficult.
Adding the id of the type to the serialized type registry makes developing and debugging with the type registry much easier, since you can manually lookup a type with a text search in the json metadata.
Encoded size increase should be negligible, just an extra u32 per type.
Hat tip to @jacogr for the idea.