when calling slider.noUiSlider.get() the values returned are an array of strings not numbers

[jdedwards3]

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I am using typescript with a definition file for noUiSlider gathered from the definitely typed repository.

This definition file indicates the type of the value returned from slider.noUislider.get() is a number[]. However it is actually returning a string[].

Shouldn't it be numbers?

[leongersen]

It's not explicit in the documentation and I'll update that, but the return type is definitely supposed to be string, as it may include formatting.

[leongersen]

Updated the docs. Thanks for reporting!

[JuusoPalander]

If get() should return a string or arrays of strings, how is this possible:

I'm using nouislider version 11.0.3 and @types/nouislider version 9.0.4 and had some tests failing because of the types change.

Just wondering if the types are correct or not?

[jdedwards3]

It is definitely returning a string. I'm not sure how the above is possible. This is not a bug.

[leongersen]

Are you using a format option that returns a Number?

[JuusoPalander]

Yup that was the case, my bad!

[leongersen]

I think I'll leave that like it is, but it'll have to be in the docs.

[leongersen]

Docs updated!

[jdedwards3]

@leongersen Just wondering if the get type def indicates it returns strings, should the set type def accept strings as params? the definition file in the definitely typed repo version 9.0.0 shows that set accepts a number array.

Can you clarify? Thanks

[leongersen]

@jimwards17 it should; it accepts strings and uses the format option to parse those to numbers.

[ivanbulanov]

noUiSlider should return an original raw value instead of a formatted string because valuable information gets lost during formatting and a user can easily format the raw value. For example I use the slider to select a range of timestamps. The values are formatted as "month-day hour". The information about year is lost and I need it to rebuild the timestamp.

[leongersen]

@ivanbulanov It will return any value your format option returns.