Typings missing native object methods

[SkeLLLa]

protobuf.js version: 6.7.3

Generated package typings don't contain any standard object methods, for example hasOwnProperty and so on, however they are exist, because it returns an object.

Typings generated with:

pbjs -t static-module -w commonjs -o ./index.js ./proto/*.proto && pbts -o ./index.d.ts ./index.js

import * as proto from 'my-static-protobuf-schemas';

proto.packageName.hasOwnProperty('MyMessage')

[dcodeIO]

Shouldn't that be handled by TypeScript so one doesn't have to redefine every single builtin for every single class?

[SkeLLLa]

@dcodeIO the thing is that package is exported as TS namespace, however it's an object in js code. So namespaces don't contain any object methods.

[dcodeIO]

Still not sure about this. Isn't that just how TypeScript works? The definition should define "MyMessage" on top of "packageName" so that using hasOwnProperty isn't necessary at all. Once you have to use hasOwnProperty, this somewhat defies the purpose of using TypeScript.

If that is what you want, you can still type-assert (or cast) things to any, which basically falls back to raw JS behavior right within TS:

(<any>proto.packageName).hasOwnProperty('MyMessage')