Non-alias type for specific schema when needed

[sparshev]

Hello folks,

I want to define a type not as alias to attach GORM Scanner/Valuer functions to properly serialize/deserialize it in DB as json document:

• input:

  components:
    schemas:
      LabelDefinitions:
        type: array
        items:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LabelDefinition'
  

• desired output:

  type LabelDefinitions []LabelDefinition
  

• actual output:

  type LabelDefinitions = []LabelDefinition
  

But I did not found a way to do that and seems Schema.DefineViaAlias controlling the Schema's IsAlias() which is defined in template pkg/codegen/templates/typedef.tmpl type {{.TypeName}} {{if .IsAlias }}={{end}} {{.Schema.TypeDecl}}. And this leads to the next error, because it's not a type but alias:

• Func definition

  func (ld LabelDefinitions) GormDataType() string {
      return "blob"
  }
  ...
  

• Result:

  label_definitions.go: invalid receiver type []LabelDefinition
  

Workarounds:

• I found compatibility:old-aliasing option, but it looks like not a good idea to set it for the entire types generation for the future...
• For now I made a bit of post-processing in the build script generation section to remove " = " for this particular case, but I wonder if there's the other options I have?

Thank you