Changes outside the decorator

Whenever you read metadata, a copy is returned by the getMeta() method. This means that you can change the data, in your given context, but the original metadata remains the same.

import { meta, getMeta } from '@aedart/support/meta';

@meta('description', { name: 'Search Service', alias: 'Location Sercher' })
class Service {}

// Obtain "copy" and change it...
let desc = getMeta(Service, 'description');
desc.name = 'Country Searcher';

// Original remains unchanged
getMeta(Service, 'description').name; // Search Service

Caution

Only the meta decorator is intended to alter existing metadata - even if the value is an object. Please be mindful of this behaviour, whenever you change retrieved metadata using the getMeta() and getAllMeta() methods.