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Unsound calls allowed on a function coming from a deferred indexed access when intersection is involved

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Description

Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

deferred index access unsound call union intersection

🕗 Version & Regression Information
  • This is the behavior in every version I tried
⏯ Playground Link

Playground link with relevant code

💻 Code
type A = {
  type: "A";
  value: string;
};

type B = {
  type: "B";
  value: number;
};

type Message = A | B;

export function handle<M extends Message>(callbacks: {
  [K in M["type"]]: (msg: (M & { type: K })["value"]) => unknown;
}) {
  window.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
    const msg = event.data as M;
    // should be an error because it's too permissive
    callbacks[msg.type as keyof typeof callbacks](msg.value);

    // one or the other must be wrong here
    callbacks[msg.type as keyof typeof callbacks]("");
    callbacks[msg.type as keyof typeof callbacks](100);
  });
}
🙁 Actual behavior

There is no error even though it should be based on Ander's comment here. Note that the comment is about a different variant of this signature, one using Extract. Both the Extract and intersection variants are essentially the same though - one errors today and one doesn't.

🙂 Expected behavior

I would expect to get an error here, just like in the Extract-based variant (TS playground)

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Research direction

Start with the linked TypeScript Playground reproductions and compare the intersection-based signature with the Extract-based variant. Determine why the two calls accepting "" and 100 receive no error in one version, then add a regression test and ensure the unsound calls are rejected.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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