Types in data models

Hello

It would be nice to have automatic parsing of base types for data model operations
For example i have this table:

Code:

CREATE TABLE `setting` (
  `id` INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` VARCHAR(50),
  `extraData` JSON,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`) USING BTREE,
);

I would like SettingModel`s find() and findAll() methods to return already typed objects, like:

Code:

{ "id: 1, "name": "Alex", "extraData": {"someData": "someValue"}}

Right now it's all strings and i need to use $afterFind and $beforeInsert hooks to normalize data
It might be convinient to have optional protected

Code:

$types 

property in the

Code:

CodeIgniter\Model 

class with syntax like something that:

PHP Code:

$types = [
   "number" => ["id"],
   "json" => ["extraData"]
];

I can implement this feature 


a

afterFind

afte