I noticed that in 1.6.20 the generated typescript ...

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[Derek Wong]

I noticed that in 1.6.20 the generated typescript definitions explicitly use “any” for types that are not exported:

get created(): any/* kotlinx.datetime.Instant */;

In previous versions I believe these would use undefined named types like this:

get created(): kotlinx.datetime.Instant

The issue with the explicit “any” type is that I’m no longer able to use my own supplemental typescript definitions for Webstorm to pick up like this:

export namespace kotlinx.datetime {
 export class Instant {
  toDate(): Date
   __proto__: any
 }
}

I’m sure there is a good reason for switching over to the “any” type for unexported types, but is there any possibility of a flag to generate the named unknown types we had before?

Being able to use supplemental typings is still pretty handy since a lot of the kotlin libraries are still not exportable. Also open to any alternatives to the approach I was using to add typings that works with the new export format if anyone knows.

[hfhbd]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-51205/K-JS-IR:-external-class-is-mapped-to-any