Need examples with EDM typing

[BillAtINeuro]

I need to specify types when inserting entities as the SDK is guessing incorrectly without them. I've found examples of multiple vintages on the web, but none are working via the new SDK. What's the correct method for this?

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• Content: Azure Tables client library for JavaScript
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[xirzec]

@BillAtINeuro thanks for the feedback! Can you help me understand your scenario a little more? From what you've mentioned I'm understanding that TS isn't strongly typing the entities in each row correctly?

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[BillAtINeuro]

It's not about Typescript, but about typing the entity fields when creating an entity.

There's info out there about how to accomplish this, but much of it is outdated. Having it explicitly documented with the SDS seems appropriate. I don't have extensive (recent) experience w/ JS/TS, so it may be obvious to some, but I'm sure there's other in my shoes.

After a lot of reading and experimentation I ended up with something like this:

    function makeCreateEntity(e: MyTableDef): any {
        return {
            partitionKey: e.partitionKey,
            rowKey: e.rowKey,
            a: { value: e.a.toString(), type: "String" },
            b: { value: e.b.toString(), type: "String" },
            c: { value: (e.c ? e.c.toString() : null), type: "Double" },
            d: { value: (e.d ? e.d.toString() : null), type: "Double" },
    .........

Which seems to function correctly when the entity is created via client.createEntity(). I have no idea if this is correct or idiomatic.

If there's another/better way to accomplish this, especially w/ TS, that would be great. I didn't find anything in the SDK docs to indicate that.