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Proposal: Ability to configure msgpack encoding, e.g. to ignore undefined properties

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
nodejs, typescript
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

The issue names FluentClient configuration and the msgpack encoder as the starting points; trace how client options reach encoding. Done means supporting configurable msgpack options, including ignoring undefined properties, while preserving existing behavior for clients without those options.

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Description

Hi 👋

Would it be helpful to anyone else if it were possible to configure the msgpack encoder.

For example msgpack has the option to ignoreUndefinedProperties, which is desirable in certain circumstances, eg. to reduce bandwidth or storage requirements.

Msgpack options could (for example) be provided with the client configuration. Something like:

const client = new FluentClient('tag', {
  msgpackOptions: {
    maxDepth: 42,
    ingnoreUndefined: true,
    // other msgpack options at https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-javascript/blob/main/src/Encoder.ts#L15
  }
}

Would be happy to throw something together if it's interesting.

Thanks in advance

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TypeScript
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