Decorator Metdata: expose array element type

TSC 175, target ES6, Node 5.6

Sample class with decorated properties:

@sg.DMClass
export class User implements IUser {
    @sg.DMProperty
    firstName: string;
    @sg.DMProperty
    lastName: string;
    @sg.DMProperty
    friends: User[];
}

Property decorator:

export function DMProperty(target: any, key: string) {
    var type = Reflect.getMetadata("design:type", target, key);
}

Current behaviour:
When the decorator gets called for property "friends", "type" is "Array" and the captured type ("User") is lost.

Expected behaviour
"type" should contain the captured type ("User"), too

Following very dirty work-around does the job: I modified tsc's method "emitSerializedTypeNode":

function emitSerializedTypeNode(node) {
    if (node) {
        console.log("*** emitSerializedTypeNode: node.kind: ", node.kind);
        switch (node.kind) {
            ...
            case 157:
                // Begin dirty ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                var _elemType = node.elementType.typeName.text;
                write("{name: 'Array<" + _elemType + ">', type:'Array', elemType:'" + _elemType + "'}");
                console.log("*** emitSerializedTypeNode: Array, type: ", node.elementType.typeName.text);
                // End dirty -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                return;
            case 150:
            ...

Best
Mind

Start at the TypeScript compiler's emitSerializedTypeNode method, especially its handling of array nodes. Compare the current design:type metadata for User[] with the issue's expected element-type information and the proposed workaround. Done means emitted metadata preserves the array element type while retaining the existing Array type information.