Need better errors/diagnostics when a type that can't be de/serialized is encountered about bond HOT 7 OPEN

As explained in the documentation the converter applies to aliases of scalars, strings and blobs. bond.GUID is a Bond defined struct.

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It seems pretty aggressive to close this issue so fast.

1. It would be better if there were an explicit compile time or runtime failure. It was very difficult to track down the root cause of this failure.

2. Why not expand support to structs? It seems like this could be considered an "enhancement" request instead of being closed outright.

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1 is a fair point but that should be a different issue with an appropriate title. BTW, alias using guid = bond.GUID is perfectly fine. What is not fine is mapping such an alias to a type (System.DateTime in your case) that is not Bond serializable (i.e. is not annotated with [Bond.Schema]). We will not support copying from one object to another (which is what BondTypeAliasConverter does) to support such mapping. If we wanted to support serializing classes/structs that are not annotated with Bond attributes we would take a different approach (user defined reflection provider) that doesn't require a copy during de/serialization.

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If I just change the title on this one can you repurpose it for 1 (I'm not sure if it's possible to re-open these)?

I think I follow what you're saying for 2. Feel free to put the scenario on the backlog. System.Guid is definitely the most useful representation of a Guid. My only real option with the current features is to map it to a "string", right?

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string or blob, depending if you care about small binary representation or human readable text representation.

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Great. Thanks.

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What's the state of the issue?
I return result from the service via "Message.From(...)" and a single place where I see the exception out of the serialization is a GRPC console log.
So I get no exceptions on the server side.

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