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Description
Search Terms
- getPromisedTypeOfPromise
- detect Promise
Suggestion
expose getPromisedTypeOfPromise
in the TypeChecker
API.
Use Cases
Writing lint rules with typechecking involving promises. One example is one checking the result of a yield in a generator. Since yields inside generators are not typed, being able to use linting to check types are properly annotated can be powerful.
Examples
// source code
const myAsyncFunc = async (num: number) => num;
function* gen() {
const y = yield call(myFunc);
}
call
is a redux saga effect that has an API contract of calling a passed function and awaiting if it is a promise. Given this contract, its possible to write a lint rule instructing a consumer to annotate y
with : number
.
// lint rule
...
let returnType = appliedFunctionType.getCallSignatures()[0].getReturnType();
if(// is promise) {
returnType = typeChecker.getPromisedTypeOfPromise(returnType);
}
Checklist
My suggestion meets these guidelines:
- This wouldn't be a breaking change in existing TypeScript/JavaScript code
- This wouldn't change the runtime behavior of existing JavaScript code
- This could be implemented without emitting different JS based on the types of the expressions
- This isn't a runtime feature (e.g. library functionality, non-ECMAScript syntax with JavaScript output, etc.)
- This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.