How do I initialize a TypeScript object with a JSON object

Question

I receive a JSON object from an AJAX call to a REST server. This object has property names that match my TypeScript class (this is a follow-on to this question).

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Answer 1

you can use Object.assign I don't know when this was added, I'm currently using Typescript 2.0.2, and this appears to be an ES6 feature.

client.fetch( '' ).then( response => {
        return response.json();
    } ).then( json => {
        let hal : HalJson = Object.assign( new HalJson(), json );
        log.debug( "json", hal );

here's HalJson

export class HalJson {
    _links: HalLinks;
}

export class HalLinks implements Links {
}

export interface Links {
    readonly [text: string]: Link;
}

export interface Link {
    readonly href: URL;
}

here's what chrome says it is

HalJson {_links: Object}
_links
:
Object
public
:
Object
href
:
"http://localhost:9000/v0/public

so you can see it doesn't do the assign recursively