quicktype does not use typescript library when parsing typescript

[hansmbakker]

When trying to parse this file, quicktype trips because it does not know about e.g. DOM events (KeyboardEvent).

Typescript includes these via lib.d.ts, but quicktype seems not to do that. Adding something like

///<reference path='lib.d.ts' />

does not help.

[hawkerm]

+1 I'm the repo owner of the linked issue @hansmbakker referenced here. I was just trying this out again and hit the same issue with version 15.0.207.

@hansmbakker however, I did notice that if I pulled certain d.ts typescript files in and add them as files to the quicktype command, I got farther. I'm just not sure the extent of which files I'd need to pull in, as when I pulled another one I started to get this error instead:

quicktype .\monaco.d.ts .\dom.generated.d.ts .\es5.d.ts --src-lang typescript -l cs --no-check-required -o Monaco.cs
Error: TypeScript error: Definitions of the following identifiers conflict with those in another file: NaN, Infinity, Object, Function, String, Boolean, Number, Math, Date, RegExp, Error, EvalError, RangeError, ReferenceError, SyntaxError, TypeError, URIError, JSON, Array, ClassDecorator, PropertyDecorator, MethodDecorator, ParameterDecorator, PromiseConstructorLike, Partial, Readonly, Pick, Record, ArrayBuffer, ArrayBufferLike, DataView, Int8Array, Uint8Array, Uint8ClampedArray, Int16Array, Uint16Array, Int32Array, Uint32Array, Float32Array, Float64Array.

(I had to remove the globalThis reference in the dom file though too.)

@schani any thoughts on other things to try?

[mfrtrifork]

I have the same issue.
export interface IFoo { bar: Gamepad; }
Guess it is because it does not use the definitions from typescript/lib/lib.dom.d.ts.