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Support `satisfies` in type declaration
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Suggestion
satisfies should work in type declarations, similar to how it works currently.
i.e. similar to
const x = y satisfies Z;
we could have
type X = Y satisfies Z;
🔍 Search Terms
satisfies, type
✅ Viability 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, new syntax sugar for JS, etc.)
- This feature would agree with the rest of TypeScript's Design Goals.
📃 Motivating Example
Say there is some library, 'to-upper', that deals with lower case letters, both Roman and Greek.
// external library 'to-upper@1.0.0'
export type LowercaseChar =
| 'a' | 'b' | 'c' | 'd' | 'e' | 'f' | 'g' | 'h' | 'i' | 'j' | 'k' | 'l' | 'm' | 'n' | 'o' | 'p' | 'q' | 'r' | 's'
| 't' | 'u' | 'v' | 'w' | 'x' | 'y' | 'z' | 'α' | 'β' | 'γ' | 'δ' | 'ε' | 'ζ' | 'η' | 'θ' | 'ι' | 'κ' | 'λ'
| 'μ' | 'ν' | 'ξ' | 'ο' | 'π' | 'ρ' | 'σ' | 'τ' | 'υ' | 'φ' | 'χ' | 'ψ' | 'ω';
export type UppercaseChar = ...;
export const toUpper = (lower: LowercaseChar): UppercaseChar => ...
And I want to use this library, but I actually only need to deal with a type that is narrower than LowercaseChar. I only need to deal with vowels. So I make my type,
// my-types.ts
export type LowercaseVowel = 'a' | 'e' | 'i' | 'o' | 'u' | 'α' | 'ε' | 'η' | 'ι' | 'ο' | 'ω' | 'υ';
and then I use it with 'to-upper'
// my-app.ts
import { lowerToUpper } from 'char.js';
import type { LowercaseVowel } from './my-types';
const myLowercaseVowel: LowercaseVowel = 'ω';
toUpper(myLowercaseVowel);
All good.
However, now the maintainer of "to-upper" decides they don't want to deal with Greek characters anymore, so they make a breaking change. Being diligent and considerate of their users, they update the LowercaseChar type definition as such:
// external library 'to-upper@2.0.0'
export type LowercaseChar =
| 'a' | 'b' | 'c' | 'd' | 'e' | 'f' | 'g' | 'h' | 'i' | 'j' | 'k' | 'l' | 'm' | 'n' | 'o' | 'p' | 'q' | 'r' | 's'
| 't' | 'u' | 'v' | 'w' | 'x' | 'y' | 'z';
...
And I update my dependencies to to-upper@2.0.0.
It's true that my code will break on type checking, but it will fail where I've called toLower(), because my LowercaseVowel (which includes lowercase Greek characters) no longer satisfies the parameter of toLower(), LowercaseChar, which doesn't.
What would be preferable is if I had defined LowecaseVowel explicitly with the constraint that it satisfies LowecaseChar, i.e.
import type { LowercaseChar } from 'char.js';
type LowercaseVowel = 'a' | 'e' | 'i' | 'o' | 'u' | 'α' | 'ε' | 'η' | 'ι' | 'ο' | 'ω' | 'υ' satisfies LowercaseChar;
(Using the syntax suggested.)
If this were supported, I can see in the type declaration whether or not my narrow type satisfies the broader type.
💻 Use Cases
Similar to the above example, this could be used to narrow usages of overly broad types like any in third-party libraries, e.g.
// third-party library
export type Payload = { data: any };
export function handlePayload(payload: Payload) {
...
}
// my satisfying library
import { type Payload, handlePayload } from 'third-party-library';
export type SpecialPayload = { data: { foo: string } } satisfies Payload;
export function handleSpecialPayload(specialPayload: SpecialPayload) {
handlePayload(specialPayload);
...
}
// consumer of my library
import { type SpecialPayload, handleSpecialPayload } from 'satisfying-library';
const mySpecialPayload: SpecialPayload = { data: { foo: 'bar' } };
handleSpecialPayload(mySpecialPayload);
In this particular contrived example, the same thing could be done with using interfaces interface SpecialPayload extends Payload { data: { foo: string; } }, but I'm sure you could think of more complex examples where interfaces cannot be used.
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Línea de trabajo
Comienza revisando el comportamiento existente de las expresiones satisfies y los ejemplos de declaraciones type propuestos en este issue. Compara los ejemplos motivadores y los casos de uso y, a continuación, determina la semántica del sistema de tipos y la validación necesarias para la funcionalidad. El trabajo terminado debe incluir un diseño aceptado y cobertura para los escenarios mostrados de narrowing y restricciones de bibliotecas.
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