[Feature Request] Add converter to StoreBuilder

[matt-ramotar]

Some of the samples demonstrate adding a converter via a StoreBuilder but it looks like that's only possible from MutableStoreBuilder now, is that right?

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/13mb2sz/comment/jkzutgk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

RealStore uses the concept of converter but currently it's only possible to configure using MutableStoreBuilder

[digitalbuddha]

Maybe storebuilder.withConverter?

[SteinerOk]

I would like to add a comment as I think this is my case.

Now I am using Store4 and the SourceOfTruth interface in it has the following signature: SourceOfTruth<Key, Input, Output>, which allows me to use different types of reading and writing in SourceOfTruth (When I receive data from the network, I modify it and write it to the database, but for reading I already get a different type (a complex combined query in the database), but there is no such possibility in Store5, due to its signature for SourceOfTruth is SourceOfTruth<Key : Any, Local : Any>), which does not allow switching to it.

Could a potential Converter cover this case?

Update:
Although I really thought this is not the case when the converter will help ...
I don't need to convert the network object to a SOT object, I just need to be able to "work" with the network model in the SOT write method...

[inktomi]

The documentation shows this as being included already, but as of 5.0.0-beta1 it's not. Note in the docs the return type is MutableStore yet the builder used is StoreBuilder.

https://mobilenativefoundation.github.io/Store/mutable-store/building/builder/

[digitalbuddha]

Hello! apologies for this breaking change, I'm at a conference this week but will take a look over weekend/next week. I think this was an unintended breaking change from an alpha where we had mutable store being a behavior of store rather than a proxy that you wrap a store with. I'll touch base with other maintainer and figure out a path forward. Apologies for the mess :-)

[wbrawner]

Hey, any updates here? I'd be happy to contribute this if no one else is already working on it

[digitalbuddha]

I don't believe anyone is and contributions are incredibly appreciated

[wbrawner]

Awesome, I'll pick this up then