[Feature Request] provide field externally in fromJson method.

[matanshukry]

Proposal

Mark a field that should be used as an input in toJson, rather than read from the jsonMap.

Example:

@JsonSerializable()
class Person {
  @JsonKey(ignore: true, externalFromJson: true)
  final String id;

  final String firstName;

  Person({required this.id, required this.firstName});

  /// Connect the generated [_$PersonFromJson] function to the `fromJson`
  /// factory.
  factory Person.fromJson(String id, Map<String, dynamic> json) => _$PersonFromJson(id, json);

  /// Connect the generated [_$PersonToJson] function to the `toJson` method.
  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() => _$PersonToJson(this);
}

The generatd code of fromJson would then use the argument rather than attempting to read it from the json map.

Use Case

Firebase documents. Each document in firebase has an id, and it's saved externally from the json. Right now there are various options to overcome this, but they all involve some change to the way the data should be represented, only to conform to the libraries we use - which shouldn't be true.

to clarify, the changes I'm talking about is changing the type of the id. Either removing final, adding late, changing to nullable String?, etc.

Assuming we're using Firebase and we have a document

[Nico04]

Great idea, I'd love this for the same Firebase purpose.
Looks similar to this feature request.