Lack of interest Make extending Entity to add new encoded types easier

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Xon

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Adding new encoded type is incredibly difficult due to a lack of context in the functions, and a critical function being not easily extendable.

Code: 
XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity::_castValueToType($value, $key, $type, array $columnOptions = [])
This function has all the context you could want.

Code: 
XF\Mvc\Entity\Entity::_decodeColumnValue($value, array $column)
The key is missing, which is rather anoying but workable.

Code: 
XF\Mvc\Entity\Manager::getEntitySourceValue($type, $value)
This function does not receive the entity, key or column options. Additionally XF\Mvc\Entity\Manager also isn't extendable without replacing the em container.

Is there any getEntitySourceValue isn't just a normal entity method? It is only ever called from an entity internal methods. All the entity per-type functions are also pure-entity functions.
 
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