Error with Inheritance and TypeScript: X is not a constructor function type

Question

I have this super class that I want two other classes to inherit from. The classes are listed below. When I compile, the two classes trying to inherit complain about the superclass (the give the same error): "[class file path (in this case A)] is not a constructor function type"

A.ts

export class A
{
    //private fields...

    constructor(username: string, password: string, firstName: string,
        lastName: string, accountType: string) 
    {
        // initialisation
    }
}

B.ts

import A = require('./A);
export class B extends A
{
    constructor(username: string, password: string, firstName: string,
        lastName: string, accountType: string) 
    {
        super(username, password, firstName, lastName, accountType);
    }
}

C.ts

import A = require('./A );
export class C extends A
{
    constructor(username: string, password: string, firstName: string,
        lastName: string, accountType: string) 
    {
        super(username, password, firstName, lastName, accountType);
    }
}

This is pretty simple, and yet Class C and B cannot compile. All the examples I have seen online do not have any other syntax for writing these classes/ constructor. I am trying to follow convention, but can't seem to get it to work.

Solution

Replace

import A = require('./A');

with

import { A } from './A';

or

import moduleA = require('./A');

export class B extends moduleA.A {
  // ...
}

Comments

[T.J. Crowder]

Where is import...from documented? I don't see it anywhere in typescriptlang.org/Handbook#modules.

[Vadim Macagon]

The handbook hasn't been updated in quite a while, I don't think it's wrong as such, but there are newer and better ways of doing some things that aren't mentioned in there. I suggest reading github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Breaking-Changes and github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/… once you've familiarized yourself with the contents of the handbook.

[maria]

@VadimMacagon Will do. Thank you!

[Vadim Macagon]

I've updated my answer to show how the import style used in the handbook would be used.