feat: Add support for useDate=string

README.markdown

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 - [Primitive Types](#primitive-types)
 - [Wrapper Types](#wrapper-types)
 - [Number Types](#number-types)
+- [Timestamps](#timestamps)
 - [Current Status of Optional Values](#current-status-of-optional-values)
 
 # Overview
@@ -293,7 +294,7 @@ protoc --plugin=node_modules/ts-proto/protoc-gen-ts_proto ./batching.proto -I.
 
   Note that `addGrpcMetadata`, `addNestjsRestParameter` and `returnObservable` will still be false.
 
-- With `--ts_proto_opt=useDate=false`, fields of type `google.protobuf.Timestamp` will not be mapped to type `Date` in the generated types.
+- With `--ts_proto_opt=useDate=false`, fields of type `google.protobuf.Timestamp` will not be mapped to type `Date` in the generated types. See [Timestamps](#timestamps) for more details.
 
 - With `--ts_proto_opt=outputSchema=true`, meta typings will be generated that can later be used in other code generators.
 
@@ -410,6 +411,14 @@ The protobuf number types map to JavaScript types based on the `forceLong` confi
 
 Where (\*) indicates they might throw an error at runtime.
 
+# Timestamps
+
+The representation of `google.protobuf.Timestamp` is configurable by the `useDate` flag.
+
+| Protobuf well-known type    | Default/`useDate=true` | `useDate=false`                      | `useDate=string` |
+| --------------------------- | ---------------------- | ------------------------------------ | ---------------- |
+| `google.protobuf.Timestamp` | `Date`                 | `{ seconds: number, nanos: number }` | `string`         |
+
 # Current Status of Optional Values
 
 - Required primitives: use as-is, i.e. `string name = 1`.

integration/simple-optionals/import_dir/thing.ts

@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ export const ImportedThing = {
 
   toJSON(message: ImportedThing): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 

integration/simple-optionals/simple.ts

@@ -402,8 +402,7 @@ export const Simple = {
     const obj: any = {};
     message.name !== undefined && (obj.name = message.name);
     message.age !== undefined && (obj.age = message.age);
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     message.child !== undefined && (obj.child = message.child ? Child.toJSON(message.child) : undefined);
     message.state !== undefined && (obj.state = stateEnumToJSON(message.state));
     if (message.grandChildren) {

integration/simple-optionals/thing.ts

@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ export const ImportedThing = {
 
   toJSON(message: ImportedThing): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 

integration/simple-snake/import_dir/thing.ts

@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ export const ImportedThing = {
 
   toJSON(message: ImportedThing): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
-    message.created_at !== undefined &&
-      (obj.created_at = message.created_at !== undefined ? message.created_at.toISOString() : null);
+    message.created_at !== undefined && (obj.created_at = message.created_at.toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 

integration/simple-snake/simple.ts

@@ -402,8 +402,7 @@ export const Simple = {
     const obj: any = {};
     message.name !== undefined && (obj.name = message.name);
     message.age !== undefined && (obj.age = message.age);
-    message.created_at !== undefined &&
-      (obj.created_at = message.created_at !== undefined ? message.created_at.toISOString() : null);
+    message.created_at !== undefined && (obj.created_at = message.created_at.toISOString());
     message.child !== undefined && (obj.child = message.child ? Child.toJSON(message.child) : undefined);
     message.state !== undefined && (obj.state = stateEnumToJSON(message.state));
     if (message.grand_children) {

integration/simple-unrecognized-enum/import_dir/thing.ts

@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ export const ImportedThing = {
 
   toJSON(message: ImportedThing): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 

integration/simple-unrecognized-enum/simple.ts

@@ -393,8 +393,7 @@ export const Simple = {
     const obj: any = {};
     message.name !== undefined && (obj.name = message.name);
     message.age !== undefined && (obj.age = message.age);
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     message.child !== undefined && (obj.child = message.child ? Child.toJSON(message.child) : undefined);
     message.state !== undefined && (obj.state = stateEnumToJSON(message.state));
     if (message.grandChildren) {

integration/simple/import_dir/thing.ts

@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ export const ImportedThing = {
 
   toJSON(message: ImportedThing): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 

integration/simple/simple.ts

@@ -480,8 +480,7 @@ export const Simple = {
     const obj: any = {};
     message.name !== undefined && (obj.name = message.name);
     message.age !== undefined && (obj.age = message.age);
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     message.child !== undefined && (obj.child = message.child ? Child.toJSON(message.child) : undefined);
     message.state !== undefined && (obj.state = stateEnumToJSON(message.state));
     if (message.grandChildren) {
@@ -1620,7 +1619,7 @@ export const SimpleWithMap_MapOfTimestampsEntry = {
   toJSON(message: SimpleWithMap_MapOfTimestampsEntry): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
     message.key !== undefined && (obj.key = message.key);
-    message.value !== undefined && (obj.value = message.value !== undefined ? message.value.toISOString() : null);
+    message.value !== undefined && (obj.value = message.value.toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 
@@ -2466,8 +2465,7 @@ export const SimpleButOptional = {
     const obj: any = {};
     message.name !== undefined && (obj.name = message.name);
     message.age !== undefined && (obj.age = message.age);
-    message.createdAt !== undefined &&
-      (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt !== undefined ? message.createdAt.toISOString() : null);
+    message.createdAt !== undefined && (obj.createdAt = message.createdAt.toISOString());
     message.child !== undefined && (obj.child = message.child ? Child.toJSON(message.child) : undefined);
     message.state !== undefined &&
       (obj.state = message.state !== undefined ? stateEnumToJSON(message.state) : undefined);

integration/type-registry/foo.ts

@@ -53,8 +53,7 @@ export const Foo = {
 
   toJSON(message: Foo): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
-    message.timestamp !== undefined &&
-      (obj.timestamp = message.timestamp !== undefined ? message.timestamp.toISOString() : null);
+    message.timestamp !== undefined && (obj.timestamp = message.timestamp.toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 

integration/type-registry/google/protobuf/timestamp.ts

@@ -57,16 +57,7 @@ export const protobufPackage = 'google.protobuf';
  *         .setNanos((int) ((millis % 1000) * 1000000)).build();
  *
  *
- * Example 5: Compute Timestamp from Java `Instant.now()`.
- *
- *     Instant now = Instant.now();
- *
- *     Timestamp timestamp =
- *         Timestamp.newBuilder().setSeconds(now.getEpochSecond())
- *             .setNanos(now.getNano()).build();
- *
- *
- * Example 6: Compute Timestamp from current time in Python.
+ * Example 5: Compute Timestamp from current time in Python.
  *
  *     timestamp = Timestamp()
  *     timestamp.GetCurrentTime()

integration/use-date-false/metadata.ts

@@ -49,8 +49,7 @@ export const Metadata = {
 
   toJSON(message: Metadata): unknown {
     const obj: any = {};
-    message.lastEdited !== undefined &&
-      (obj.lastEdited = message.lastEdited !== undefined ? fromTimestamp(message.lastEdited).toISOString() : null);
+    message.lastEdited !== undefined && (obj.lastEdited = fromTimestamp(message.lastEdited).toISOString());
     return obj;
   },
 

integration/use-date-string/google/protobuf/timestamp.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+/* eslint-disable */
+import { util, configure, Writer, Reader } from 'protobufjs/minimal';
+import * as Long from 'long';
+
+export const protobufPackage = 'google.protobuf';
+
+/**
+ * A Timestamp represents a point in time independent of any time zone or local
+ * calendar, encoded as a count of seconds and fractions of seconds at
+ * nanosecond resolution. The count is relative to an epoch at UTC midnight on
+ * January 1, 1970, in the proleptic Gregorian calendar which extends the
+ * Gregorian calendar backwards to year one.
+ *
+ * All minutes are 60 seconds long. Leap seconds are "smeared" so that no leap
+ * second table is needed for interpretation, using a [24-hour linear
+ * smear](https://developers.google.com/time/smear).
+ *
+ * The range is from 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z. By
+ * restricting to that range, we ensure that we can convert to and from [RFC
+ * 3339](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt) date strings.
+ *
+ * # Examples
+ *
+ * Example 1: Compute Timestamp from POSIX `time()`.
+ *
+ *     Timestamp timestamp;
+ *     timestamp.set_seconds(time(NULL));
+ *     timestamp.set_nanos(0);
+ *
+ * Example 2: Compute Timestamp from POSIX `gettimeofday()`.
+ *
+ *     struct timeval tv;
+ *     gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
+ *
+ *     Timestamp timestamp;
+ *     timestamp.set_seconds(tv.tv_sec);
+ *     timestamp.set_nanos(tv.tv_usec * 1000);
+ *
+ * Example 3: Compute Timestamp from Win32 `GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()`.
+ *
+ *     FILETIME ft;
+ *     GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&ft);
+ *     UINT64 ticks = (((UINT64)ft.dwHighDateTime) << 32) | ft.dwLowDateTime;
+ *
+ *     // A Windows tick is 100 nanoseconds. Windows epoch 1601-01-01T00:00:00Z
+ *     // is 11644473600 seconds before Unix epoch 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
+ *     Timestamp timestamp;
+ *     timestamp.set_seconds((INT64) ((ticks / 10000000) - 11644473600LL));
+ *     timestamp.set_nanos((INT32) ((ticks % 10000000) * 100));
+ *
+ * Example 4: Compute Timestamp from Java `System.currentTimeMillis()`.
+ *
+ *     long millis = System.currentTimeMillis();
+ *
+ *     Timestamp timestamp = Timestamp.newBuilder().setSeconds(millis / 1000)
+ *         .setNanos((int) ((millis % 1000) * 1000000)).build();
+ *
+ *
+ * Example 5: Compute Timestamp from current time in Python.
+ *
+ *     timestamp = Timestamp()
+ *     timestamp.GetCurrentTime()
+ *
+ * # JSON Mapping
+ *
+ * In JSON format, the Timestamp type is encoded as a string in the
+ * [RFC 3339](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt) format. That is, the
+ * format is "{year}-{month}-{day}T{hour}:{min}:{sec}[.{frac_sec}]Z"
+ * where {year} is always expressed using four digits while {month}, {day},
+ * {hour}, {min}, and {sec} are zero-padded to two digits each. The fractional
+ * seconds, which can go up to 9 digits (i.e. up to 1 nanosecond resolution),
+ * are optional. The "Z" suffix indicates the timezone ("UTC"); the timezone
+ * is required. A proto3 JSON serializer should always use UTC (as indicated by
+ * "Z") when printing the Timestamp type and a proto3 JSON parser should be
+ * able to accept both UTC and other timezones (as indicated by an offset).
+ *
+ * For example, "2017-01-15T01:30:15.01Z" encodes 15.01 seconds past
+ * 01:30 UTC on January 15, 2017.
+ *
+ * In JavaScript, one can convert a Date object to this format using the
+ * standard
+ * [toISOString()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toISOString)
+ * method. In Python, a standard `datetime.datetime` object can be converted
+ * to this format using
+ * [`strftime`](https://docs.python.org/2/library/time.html#time.strftime) with
+ * the time format spec '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ'. Likewise, in Java, one can use
+ * the Joda Time's [`ISODateTimeFormat.dateTime()`](
+ * http://www.joda.org/joda-time/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/ISODateTimeFormat.html#dateTime%2D%2D
+ * ) to obtain a formatter capable of generating timestamps in this format.
+ */
+export interface Timestamp {
+  /**
+   * Represents seconds of UTC time since Unix epoch
+   * 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. Must be from 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to
+   * 9999-12-31T23:59:59Z inclusive.
+   */
+  seconds: number;
+  /**
+   * Non-negative fractions of a second at nanosecond resolution. Negative
+   * second values with fractions must still have non-negative nanos values
+   * that count forward in time. Must be from 0 to 999,999,999
+   * inclusive.
+   */
+  nanos: number;
+}
+
+const baseTimestamp: object = { seconds: 0, nanos: 0 };
+
+export const Timestamp = {
+  encode(message: Timestamp, writer: Writer = Writer.create()): Writer {
+    if (message.seconds !== 0) {
+      writer.uint32(8).int64(message.seconds);
+    }
+    if (message.nanos !== 0) {
+      writer.uint32(16).int32(message.nanos);
+    }
+    return writer;
+  },
+
+  decode(input: Reader | Uint8Array, length?: number): Timestamp {
+    const reader = input instanceof Uint8Array ? new Reader(input) : input;
+    let end = length === undefined ? reader.len : reader.pos + length;
+    const message = { ...baseTimestamp } as Timestamp;
+    while (reader.pos < end) {
+      const tag = reader.uint32();
+      switch (tag >>> 3) {
+        case 1:
+          message.seconds = longToNumber(reader.int64() as Long);
+          break;
+        case 2:
+          message.nanos = reader.int32();
+          break;
+        default:
+          reader.skipType(tag & 7);
+          break;
+      }
+    }
+    return message;
+  },
+
+  fromJSON(object: any): Timestamp {
+    const message = { ...baseTimestamp } as Timestamp;
+    if (object.seconds !== undefined && object.seconds !== null) {
+      message.seconds = Number(object.seconds);
+    } else {
+      message.seconds = 0;
+    }
+    if (object.nanos !== undefined && object.nanos !== null) {
+      message.nanos = Number(object.nanos);
+    } else {
+      message.nanos = 0;
+    }
+    return message;
+  },
+
+  toJSON(message: Timestamp): unknown {
+    const obj: any = {};
+    message.seconds !== undefined && (obj.seconds = message.seconds);
+    message.nanos !== undefined && (obj.nanos = message.nanos);
+    return obj;
+  },
+
+  fromPartial(object: DeepPartial<Timestamp>): Timestamp {
+    const message = { ...baseTimestamp } as Timestamp;
+    if (object.seconds !== undefined && object.seconds !== null) {
+      message.seconds = object.seconds;
+    } else {
+      message.seconds = 0;
+    }
+    if (object.nanos !== undefined && object.nanos !== null) {
+      message.nanos = object.nanos;
+    } else {
+      message.nanos = 0;
+    }
+    return message;
+  },
+};
+
+declare var self: any | undefined;
+declare var window: any | undefined;
+var globalThis: any = (() => {
+  if (typeof globalThis !== 'undefined') return globalThis;
+  if (typeof self !== 'undefined') return self;
+  if (typeof window !== 'undefined') return window;
+  if (typeof global !== 'undefined') return global;
+  throw 'Unable to locate global object';
+})();
+
+type Builtin = Date | Function | Uint8Array | string | number | undefined;
+export type DeepPartial<T> = T extends Builtin
+  ? T
+  : T extends Array<infer U>
+  ? Array<DeepPartial<U>>
+  : T extends ReadonlyArray<infer U>
+  ? ReadonlyArray<DeepPartial<U>>
+  : T extends {}
+  ? { [K in keyof T]?: DeepPartial<T[K]> }
+  : Partial<T>;
+
+function longToNumber(long: Long): number {
+  if (long.gt(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER)) {
+    throw new globalThis.Error('Value is larger than Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER');
+  }
+  return long.toNumber();
+}
+
+// If you get a compile-error about 'Constructor<Long> and ... have no overlap',
+// add '--ts_proto_opt=esModuleInterop=true' as a flag when calling 'protoc'.
+if (util.Long !== Long) {
+  util.Long = Long as any;
+  configure();
+}

integration/use-date-string/parameters.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+useDate=string