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Type definition for what for await takes #36153

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I haven't found this request on the current issues so I'm opening one.

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"for await" asynchronous generators

Suggestion

If for await can take both an Iterable and an AsyncIterable then I'd like a type alias

type ForAwaitable<T> = Iterable<T> | AsyncIterable<T>;

// or maybe ForAwaitable<T, U = T> = Iterable<T> | AsyncIterable<U>;

Better names are welcome.

Use Cases

type ForAwaitable<T> = Iterable<T> | AsyncIterable<T>;

async function foo(chunks: ForAwaitable<Buffer>): Promise<void> {
  for await (const chunk of chunks) {
    // ...
  }
}

await foo(someReadableStream);
await foo(inMemoryBufferArray);

Looking at https://tc39.es/proposal-async-iteration/#sec-createasyncfromsynciterator and after a test, if an object has both fields Symbol.asyncIterator and Symbol.iterator then the former takes precedence, but that use case should rarely happen.

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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.
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