Typescript Model Classes for Reactive Mongo Example

deserializable.ts

/**
 * Enforces a deserialize method to ensure a model class 
 * can construct itself from a JSON string
 */
export interface Deserializable {
  deserialize(input: any): this;
}

player.model.ts

import {Deserializable} from "./deserializable";

export class PlayerModel implements Deserializable {

  name: string;

  score: number;

  deserialize(input: any): this {
    Object.assign(this, input);
    return this;
  }

}

team.model.ts

import {PlayerModel} from './player.model';
import {Deserializable} from "./deserializable";

export class TeamModel implements Deserializable {
  id: string;
  name: string;
  players: PlayerModel[] = [];
  totalScore: number;

  deserialize(input: any): this {
    Object.assign(this, input);
    this.players = input.players
      .map((player: PlayerModel) => new PlayerModel().deserialize(player));
    return this;
  }
}