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cheziHoyzer
cheziHoyzer

Reputation: 5041

Typescript not nested object type

I want to declare generic object type that is not nested (value is not object/array, only primitive)

For example:

Valid:

{
 a:"value",
 b:false,
 c:4
}

Invalid:

{
a:{b:"c"}
}

{
a:[5]
}

Something like this (of course it's invalid declaration):

interface NotNestedObject  {
  [x: any]: not Array/Object;
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 509

Answers (1)

Sherif Elmetainy
Sherif Elmetainy

Reputation: 4492

Luckily there aren't many primitive types in typescript, so you can just simply list them all in a union type.

interface NotNestedObject  {
    [x: string]: number|boolean|string|null|undefined;
}

if you want dates to be included

interface NotNestedObject  {
    [x: string]: number|boolean|string|Date|null|undefined;
}

if you want functions also to be included

interface NotNestedObject  {
    [x: string]: number|boolean|string|Date|Function|null|undefined;
}

And of course you can remove null and undefined if you don't want them to be allowed. They are included by default unless you enable strictNullChecks compiler option.

Upvotes: 3

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