DataClass as return type of form

[aarmn]

Describe the problem

Dictionaries are nice data types but they are not very well specialized for this purpose I feel, I wanna ask why there is not an option (or why it didn't become the default) to use data classes as the return type of questionary form?

Describe the solution

I guess it's pretty simple to implement it as a form option to return its data as a data class? if it matches zen of this project I guess I can work on it.

Alternatives considered

well, alternative is the already implemented approach so, Null :)

[tmbo]

Hey @aarmn that is a really good point - I guess reasons are pretty simple, it is based on inquirer and it used to be simple objects there (plus, dataclasses were not a thing when we started this 😉 ). We'd need to drop 3.6 support, but that is alright it is out of life now anyways.

I do like the idea, it could provide a cleaner interface. How about you create an example on how that would look like in terms of user experience for someone using questionary and then we decide based on that? I could see this justifying a breaking change.