Add a way to hide the entity type when parsing

__tests__/entity-creation.unit.test.js

@@ -345,6 +345,38 @@ describe('Entity creation', ()=> {
     expect(TestEntity._etAlias).toBe('entity')
   }) // creates entity w/ table
 
+  it('creates entity w/ table w/ overriden type alias', async () => {
+
+    // Create basic table
+    const TestTable = new Table({
+      name: 'test-table',
+      partitionKey: 'pk',
+      DocumentClient
+    })
+
+    // Create basic entity
+    const TestEntity = new Entity({
+      name: 'TestEnt',
+      typeAlias: 'type',
+      typeHidden: true,
+      attributes: {
+        pk: { partitionKey: true }
+      },
+      table: TestTable,
+      timestamps: false
+    })
+
+    expect(TestEntity._etAlias).toBe('type')
+    expect(TestEntity.schema.attributes._et.alias).toBe('type')
+    expect(TestEntity.schema.attributes._et.hidden).toBe(true)
+
+    expect(TestEntity.parse({
+      _et: 'TestEnt',
+      pk: 'test',
+    })).toEqual({
+      pk: 'test',
+    })
+  })
 
   it('creates entity composite key delimiter, prefix and suffix', async () => {
 

__tests__/parseEntity.unit.test.js

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ const entity = {
   modified: '_modified',
   modifiedAlias: 'modifiedAlias',
   typeAlias: 'typeAlias',
+  typeHidden: true,
   attributes: {
     pk: { partitionKey: true },
     sk: { sortKey: true },
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ describe('parseEntity', () => {
     expect(ent.autoExecute).toBe(true)
     expect(ent.autoParse).toBe(true)
     expect(ent._etAlias).toBe('typeAlias')
+    expect(ent.typeHidden).toBe(true)
   }) 
 
   it('fails on extra config option', async () => {

classes/Entity.js

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ class Entity {
 
       // If an entity tracking field is enabled, add the attributes, alias and the default
       if (table.Table.entityField) {
-        this.schema.attributes[table.Table.entityField] = { type: 'string', alias: this._etAlias, default: this.name }
+        this.schema.attributes[table.Table.entityField] = { type: 'string', hidden: this.typeHidden, alias: this._etAlias, default: this.name }
         this.defaults[table.Table.entityField] = this.name
         this.schema.attributes[this._etAlias] = { type: 'string', map: table.Table.entityField, default: this.name }
         this.defaults[this._etAlias] = this.name

lib/parseEntity.js

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ module.exports = (entity) => {
     modified,
     modifiedAlias,
     typeAlias,
+    typeHidden,
     attributes,
     autoExecute,
     autoParse,
@@ -65,6 +66,9 @@ module.exports = (entity) => {
   typeAlias = typeof typeAlias === 'string'
     && typeAlias.trim().length > 0 ? typeAlias.trim()
     : 'entity'
+
+  // Define 'typeHidden'
+  typeHidden = typeof typeHidden === 'boolean' ? typeHidden : false
 
   // Sanity check the attributes
   attributes = typeof attributes === 'object' && !Array.isArray(attributes) ?
@@ -94,6 +98,7 @@ module.exports = (entity) => {
     linked: track.linked,
     autoExecute,
     autoParse,
+    typeHidden,
     _etAlias: typeAlias 
   },
   table ? { table } : {}