Buggy(?) namespace collision with internal modules.

[sccolbert]

I have the following:

// third-party.d.ts
declare module foo.bar {
  export interface IBar<T> {
    a: T;
  }
}

// bar.ts
module bar {
  export interface IBar {
    a: number;
  }
}

// main.ts
module foo.main {
  import IBar = foo.bar.IBar;
  import IBar2 = bar.IBar;
  export var a: IBar<number>;
  export var b: IBar2;
}

compiling with:

tsc -d bar.ts main.ts third-party.d.ts

fails with:

main.ts(5,17): error TS2314: Generic type 'IBar<T>' requires 1 type argument(s).

The issue appears to be because the foo.main shares the foo namespace with the third party foo.bar and cannot distinguish the thirty party namespace from the top-level bar namespace.

Updating the main file to drop the imports:

module foo.main {
  export var a: foo.bar.IBar<number>;
  export var b: bar.IBar2;
}

yields this error:

main.ts(5,17): error TS2305: Module 'foo.bar' has no exported member 'IBar2'

Is there any way to resolve the name clash? This simple example aside, you can imaging a large project which contains a module like somecompany.utility, which would prevent the use of any top-level utility module in the future.

[danquirk]

A way to resolve the name clash is covered by #983 which includes suggested workarounds in the interim. Hopefully one of those techniques can help unblock you. Let me know if that's not right or else we can close this as a duplicate.

[sccolbert]

That issue covers it. Thanks!