Adding type inference from schema

[eladhaim]

This library is extremely useful, and we rely on it frequently. However, we believe there’s a feature that could make it even better: type inference at build time, rather than runtime as it currently works. For instance, something similar to the zod library’s infer type feature.

Our idea is for avro.Type.forSchema to return the actual type instead of any, eliminating the need to generate TypeScript types using a separate library. I’d be happy to open a pull request and work on this. Would this be something you’d consider accepting?

[GridexX]

This sounds perfect, on was exactly was I was expected. I think you could start to work on, this library is not so much maintian anymore I think

[mtth]

Hi @eladhaim - apologies for the belated response. This sounds quite useful, but I would encourage you to publish it as a separate library, at least for now.

I'm in the (slow) process of migrating avsc into multiple TypeScript packages; each with a smaller scope: @avro/types, @avro/streams, ... Once this is done, I would consider adding a separate package with the functionality you describe.