How do I cast a JSON Object to a TypeScript class?

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I read a JSON object from a remote REST server. This JSON object has all the properties of a typescript class (by design). How do I cast that received JSON object to a type var?

I don’t want to populate a typescript var (ie have a constructor that takes this JSON object). It’s large and copying everything across sub-object by sub-object & property by property would take a lot of time.

Update: You can however cast it to a typescript interface!

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I had the same issue and I have found a library that does the job : https://github.com/pleerock/class-transformer.

It works like this :

let jsonObject = response.json() as Object;
let fooInstance = plainToClass(Models.Foo, jsonObject);
return fooInstance;

It supports nested children but you have to decorate your class’s member.

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