typedoc.json inputFiles property not working as expected

[pchuong]

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typedoc.json inputFiles

Expected Behavior

When I specified the inputFiles option in the typedoc.json file to have an array (or single) of directories such as ["./src/foo/lib", "./src/bar/lib"]. It pickup all the files in the ./src file. I expect it to only search for files in the two lib folders.

Actual Behavior

All files in the ./src folder are parsed and the generated doc contains files in other folder.

Steps to reproduce the bug

typedoc.json
{
"mode": "modules",
"out": "./docs",
"inputFiles": ["./src/foo/lib", "./src/bar/lib"]
}

Case #1: doesn't work
typedoc --options typedoc.json --tsconfig tsconfig.json

Case #2: work (with or without the inputFiles property in the typedoc.json file)
typedoc --options typedoc.json --tsconfig tsconfigjson "./src/foo/lib" "./src/bar/lib"

Environment

• Typedoc version: 0.17.4
• TypeScript version: 3.8.3
• Node.js version: 12.16.1
• OS: Windows10

[Gerrit0]

Ah, good catch. Should be a really simple fix. The tsconfig reader should check if inputFiles is default before setting it.

[Gerrit0]

There's a fix for this in #1265, but it bumps the required Node version from 8.0 to 9.0 so can't be merged until 0.18 is ready (#1241).