Enhaced support for struct serialization and de-serialization

[asterkin]

Use Case

Here are regular needs I encountered in my development practice:

1. struct.toJson() - required for storage and, sometimes I/O (when struct Json needs to be enclosed in some outer Json) operations; Workaround Json.parse(Jsonstringify(...)) is expensive and does not always work.
2. struct.fromJson(...) with proper support for standard types like DateTime, Enums, etc. Json.stringify() will convert these fields to strings, but fromJson() will fail.
3. struct.toFieldArray(), struct.fromFieldArray() - useful for tests and generic CVS
4. As a pre-condition forth and back conversion between Enums and strings - TypeScript supports it.

Proposed Solution

You may find a sample implementation here: https://github.com/asterkin/endor.w/tree/main/structx

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[Chriscbr]

Great suggestions

struct.toFieldArray(), struct.fromFieldArray() - useful for tests and generic CVS

@asterkin What would these do?

[asterkin]

@Chriscbr I added you to my bluezone.endor.w GitHub repository. Here fromFieldArray is used for implementing Cucumber-like BDD tests. I do not have a practical example of toFieldArray(), but any serialization to a CVS-like file could use it.