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Fixes #16760

Previously literal union types were disallowed to improve errors by printing boolean instead of true | false. But string enums are literal union types that should be allowed, so now only booleans are disallowed.

Previously literal union types were disallowed to improve errors by
printing `boolean` instead of `true | false`. But string enums are
literal union types that should be allowed, so now only booleans are
disallowed.
// In the following we resolve T[K] to the type of the property in T selected by K.
const apparentObjectType = getApparentType(objectType);
if (indexType.flags & TypeFlags.Union && !(indexType.flags & TypeFlags.Primitive)) {
if (indexType.flags & TypeFlags.Union && !(indexType.flags & TypeFlags.Boolean)) {
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Could you add a comment explaining that we are avoiding TypeFlags.Boolean here for stylistic reasons to ensure that we show boolean and not true in error messages? Might also want to link to keyofAndIndexedAccessErrors.errors.txt, which is the only test that fails (i.e., has slightly different error messages) if this check isn't here.

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Done

Booleans are not treated like other unions in order to skip straight to
error reporting so that the error is reported with 'boolean' instead of
'true'.
@sandersn sandersn merged commit 278dcc6 into master Aug 28, 2017
@sandersn sandersn deleted the allow-string-enum-in-element-access branch August 28, 2017 19:56
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