@Entity(realClass: ) to support some custom code generators

generator/integration-tests/part-partof/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# start with an empty project, without a objectbox-model.json
+objectbox-model.json
+*.freezed.dart

generator/integration-tests/part-partof/0.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+import 'package:test/test.dart';
+import '../test_env.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  // this is actually a meta test - that `git clean -fX` is run
+  test('project must be clean before generating the code', () {
+    expect(TestEnv.dir.existsSync(), false);
+    expect(File('lib/objectbox.g.dart').existsSync(), false);
+    expect(File('lib/objectbox-model.json').existsSync(), false);
+  });
+}

generator/integration-tests/part-partof/1.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import 'dart:io';
+
+import 'package:test/test.dart';
+
+import '../test_env.dart';
+import '../common.dart';
+import 'lib/json.dart';
+import 'lib/frozen.dart';
+import 'lib/objectbox.g.dart';
+
+void main() {
+  commonModelTests(getObjectBoxModel(), readModelJson('lib'));
+
+  test('project must be generated properly', () {
+    expect(File('lib/objectbox.g.dart').existsSync(), true);
+    expect(File('lib/objectbox-model.json').existsSync(), true);
+  });
+
+  setupTestsFor(JsonEntity(id: 0, str: 'foo', date: DateTime.now()));
+  setupTestsFor(FrozenEntity(id: 1, str: 'foo', date: DateTime.now()));
+}
+
+void setupTestsFor<EntityT>(EntityT newObject) {
+  group('${EntityT}', () {
+    late TestEnv<EntityT> env;
+    setUp(() => env = TestEnv(getObjectBoxModel()));
+    tearDown(() => env.close());
+
+    test('read/write', () {
+      env.box.put(newObject);
+      env.box.get(1);
+    });
+  });
+}

generator/integration-tests/part-partof/lib/frozen.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import 'package:objectbox/objectbox.dart';
+import 'package:freezed_annotation/freezed_annotation.dart';
+
+part 'frozen.freezed.dart';
+
+@freezed
+class FrozenEntity with _$FrozenEntity {
+  @Entity(realClass: FrozenEntity)
+  factory FrozenEntity(
+      {@Id(assignable: true) required int id,
+      required String str,
+      required DateTime date}) = _FrozenEntity;
+}

generator/integration-tests/part-partof/lib/json.dart

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import 'package:objectbox/objectbox.dart';
+import 'package:json_annotation/json_annotation.dart';
+
+part 'json.g.dart';
+
+@Entity()
+@JsonSerializable()
+class JsonEntity {
+  int id;
+  final String str;
+  final DateTime? date;
+
+  JsonEntity({required this.id, required this.str, required this.date});
+
+  factory JsonEntity.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json) =>
+      _$JsonEntityFromJson(json);
+
+  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() => _$JsonEntityToJson(this);
+}

generator/integration-tests/part-partof/pubspec.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+name: objectbox_generator_test
+
+environment:
+  sdk: ">=2.12.0 <3.0.0"
+
+dependencies:
+  objectbox:
+  json_serializable:
+  freezed_annotation:
+
+dev_dependencies:
+  freezed:
+  objectbox_generator:
+  test:
+  build_runner:
+  build_test:
+  io:
+  path:
+
+dependency_overrides:
+  objectbox:
+    path: ../../../objectbox
+  objectbox_generator:
+    path: ../../

generator/lib/src/entity_resolver.dart

@@ -59,9 +59,12 @@ class EntityResolver extends Builder {
 
     // process basic entity (note that allModels.createEntity is not used, as the entity will be merged)
     final entityUid = annotation.read('uid');
+    final entityRealClass = annotation.read('realClass');
     final entity = ModelEntity.create(
         IdUid(0, entityUid.isNull ? 0 : entityUid.intValue),
-        element.name,
+        entityRealClass.isNull
+            ? element.name
+            : entityRealClass.typeValue.element!.name!,
         null);
 
     if (_syncChecker.hasAnnotationOfExact(element)) {

objectbox/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 ## latest
 
+* New `@Entity()` annotation field `type realClass` to support some custom code generators. 
 
 ## 1.0.0 (2021-05-18)
 

objectbox/lib/src/annotations.dart

@@ -17,8 +17,21 @@ class Entity {
   /// Entity instead of creating a new one.
   final int? uid;
 
+  /// Actual type this entity represents. ObjectBox will use it instead of the
+  /// `@Entity()`-annotated class's name. For example:
+  /// ```dart
+  /// @freezed
+  /// class Person with _$Person {
+  ///   @Entity(realClass: Person)
+  ///   factory Person(
+  ///       {@Id(assignable: true) required int id,
+  ///       required String name}) = _Person;
+  /// }
+  /// ```
+  final Type? realClass;
+
   /// Create an Entity annotation.
-  const Entity({this.uid});
+  const Entity({this.uid, this.realClass});
 }
 
 /// Property annotation enables you to explicitly configure some details about