Allow app to exclude types from metadata parsing with a NodeApiExcludeFromMetadata property #462
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This is great, thanks!
There are some nuget package issues that break the PR build, which I will fix in the package feed.
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Problem: I'd like to write Javascript against WinAppSdk projection assemblies, but some of the types cause the metadata parser to throw a "NotSupportedException", apparently because they accept pointers.
Proposed Solution: This is a proposed PR to add an API to allow a consumer project to tell the node-api-dotnet generator to exclude certain types (with wildcard match) by setting a NodeApiExcludeFromMetadata property.
Here we exclude a few different types and namespaces:
This PR also adds an example/winappsdk dir that shows how a nodejs app can use node-api-dotnet to call WinAppSDK WinRT APIs.