fix: store external metadata as json instead of bytes

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@molgenis/vip-report-api",
-  "version": "5.0.0",
+  "version": "5.0.1",
   "description": "TypeScript Report API for Variant Call Format (VCF) Report Templates",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "tsc --build",

src/ApiClient.ts

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   SortOrder,
 } from "./Api";
 import { Metadata as RecordMetadata, Record } from "@molgenis/vip-report-vcf/src/Vcf";
+import { Metadata as ExternalMetadata } from "@molgenis/vip-report-vcf/src/FieldMetadata";
 import { compareAsc, compareDesc } from "./compare";
 
 export interface ReportData {
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ interface Data {
 
 export interface BinaryReportData {
   vcf?: Uint8Array;
-  vcfMeta?: Uint8Array;
+  vcfMeta?: ExternalMetadata;
   fastaGz?: { [key: string]: Uint8Array };
   genesGz?: Uint8Array;
   cram?: { [key: string]: Cram };

src/WindowApiClient.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import { parseVcf } from "@molgenis/vip-report-vcf/src/VcfParser";
 import { ApiClient, ReportData } from "./ApiClient";
-import { Metadata } from "@molgenis/vip-report-vcf/src/FieldMetadata";
 
 export type EncodedReport = ReportData & {
   base85?: EncodedReportData;
@@ -29,9 +28,7 @@ export class WindowApiClient extends ApiClient {
     if (reportData === undefined) {
       alert("This is a report template. Use the vip-report tool to create reports using this template and data.");
     }
-    const vcfMeta = reportData.binary.vcfMeta
-      ? (JSON.parse(new TextDecoder().decode(reportData.binary.vcfMeta)) as Metadata)
-      : undefined;
+    const vcfMeta = reportData.binary.vcfMeta ? reportData.binary.vcfMeta : undefined;
     const vcf = parseVcf(new TextDecoder().decode(reportData.binary.vcf), vcfMeta);
     reportData.metadata.records = vcf.metadata;
     reportData.data.records = vcf.data;