Implement relational structured data for products about vendure HOT 1 OPEN

Idea: Struct custom field type

I've had this idea for a while: a new type for custom fields which is named "struct". The naming open for debate - there might be a better word like "object" or something. Anyway, I'll use "struct" for now.

It would be defined like this:

const config = {
    // ...
    customFields: {
        Product: [
            {
                name: 'composition',
                type: 'struct',
                fields: [
                    { name: 'ingredient', type: 'string' },
                    { name: 'compositionPercentage', type: 'float' },
                ],
            },
        ],
    },
};

When using the struct type, you are then required to define the fields array, which specifies the properties on that struct.

The fields would be like a subset of the custom field definition, allowing only primitive types: string, text, int, float, datetime, because internally this will get serialized into a JSON string.

It will not support localized strings or relation types, as these cannot easily be serialized into a JSON string.

It may support lists of those primitive types, but this is subject to more investigation on how complex this would be to support.

The Admin UI would understand how to render inputs for the struct type, and individual fields could also have custom ui components defined just like regular custom fields.

from vendure.