typescript - string literal type to type string
You are able to cast your value of the Status
to a string like this:
type Status = 'new' | 'update' | 'close';
itemRequest(status: Status) {
itemService.subscribeToChanges(status as string)
}
Do not use String(status)
. This constructs a new string
object from status
and is a wasteful allocation. The cast will be erased at runtime and just corrects TypeScript's knowledge of the type of the status
variable. Remember that any type checking TypeScript does is done at compile time and has no runtime cost nor presence.
This code will be compiled to the following:
itemRequest(status) {
itemService.subscribeToChanges(status)
}
I am however confused as to why this is happening. Your type alias are all of type string
so casting from Status
to string
should be a upcast (i.e, permissible under any reasonable type checker). The other way around would be the main issue. Indeed, your original code works just fine on it's own.
MonteCristo
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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MonteCristo almost 2 years
I have a method with string literal type guard
type Status = 'new' | 'update' | 'close'; itemRequest(status: Status) { itemService.subscribeToChanges(status) //third party library method }
Difficulty I have is this third party method accepts string not my custom string type
Status
subscribeToChanges(status: string)
How can I make my string literals are actually types of string and when I pass to third party method. It understand it's actually a string?
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jeffkmeng about 4 yearsit should be cast as a lowercase
string
, not uppercaseString
. See stackoverflow.com/questions/14727044/…