TypeScript 3 update exposed latent issues preventing usage of @loopback/repository-json-schema #1643
Description
Description / Steps to reproduce / Feature proposal
Try to build a project that uses @loopback/repository-json-schema using today's (August 24) release
Current Behavior
The build fails thus:
> lb-tsc es2018
../../common/temp/node_modules/@loopback/repository-json-schema/dist8/src/keys.d.ts:6:75 - error TS2307: Cannot find module '../../context/node_modules/@loopback/metadata/src/types'.
6 export declare const JSON_SCHEMA_KEY: MetadataAccessor<JSONSchema, import("../../context/node_modules/@loopback/metadata/src/types").DecoratorType>;
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Expected Behavior
It should not fail to compile. It did not fail as of yesterday.
This looks related to #1405 -- I'm guessing it was introduced by the update to building using TypeScript 3.
More Notes
The offending release file in today's build:
import { MetadataAccessor } from '@loopback/context';
import { JSONSchema6 as JSONSchema } from 'json-schema';
/**
* Metadata key used to set or retrieve repository JSON Schema
*/
export declare const JSON_SCHEMA_KEY: MetadataAccessor<JSONSchema, import("../../context/node_modules/@loopback/metadata/src/types").DecoratorType>;
The same file in the prior release:
import { MetadataAccessor } from '@loopback/context';
import { JSONSchema6 as JSONSchema } from 'json-schema';
/**
* Metadata key used to set or retrieve repository JSON Schema
*/
export declare const JSON_SCHEMA_KEY: MetadataAccessor<JSONSchema, ClassDecorator | PropertyDecorator | MethodDecorator | ParameterDecorator>;
I would also note that, AFAICT, importing MetadataAccessor from @loopback/context is not correct, it should be imported from @loopback/metadata.
Experimenting with current master (01d3a37), I can reproduce the "bad" build output building it locally. Changing repository-json-schema (package.json and src/types.ts) to fix that import issue produces a more plausible looking types.d.ts:
import { MetadataAccessor } from '@loopback/metadata';
import { JSONSchema6 as JSONSchema } from 'json-schema';
/**
* Metadata key used to set or retrieve repository JSON Schema
*/
export declare const JSON_SCHEMA_KEY: MetadataAccessor<JSONSchema, import("@loopback/metadata/src/types").DecoratorType>;
I haven't gone through running tests or auditing the code for other instances of this issue.
A quick grep of the dist* folders in a built tree suggests that packages/authentication/src/keys.ts and packages/boot/test/fixtures/application.ts need this same fix:
loopback-next$ find -type d -name dist\* | xargs fgrep -r 'import("../'
./packages/authentication/dist8/src/keys.d.ts:export declare const AUTHENTICATION_METADATA_KEY: MetadataAccessor<AuthenticationMetadata, import("../../context/node_modules/@loopback/metadata/src/types").DecoratorType>;
./packages/authentication/dist10/src/keys.d.ts:export declare const AUTHENTICATION_METADATA_KEY: MetadataAccessor<AuthenticationMetadata, import("../../context/node_modules/@loopback/metadata/src/types").DecoratorType>;
./packages/boot/dist8/test/fixtures/application.d.ts: bootOptions?: import("../../src/interfaces").BootOptions | undefined;
./packages/boot/dist10/test/fixtures/application.d.ts: bootOptions?: import("../../src/interfaces").BootOptions | undefined;