Automatic imports break with Flow's import type

[karlhorky]

VSCode Version: 1.21.1
OS Version: macOS 10.13.3 (17D102)

Re-submitting @jlyons-bgl's issue to ask for a re-consideration of it. Could an exception not be made for this one syntax?

I would just comment on the issue itself but it has been locked.

Original issue (#39743):

The new automatic import feature is great! But I have an issue when using it with Flow.

Starting with:

import { TAccount } from './TAccount'
import type { SimilarTransactionJson, TAccountJson } from '../../types/BankingTypes'

and selecting an auto import Intellisense option I end up with:

import { TAccount } from './TAccount'
import typeimport { Entry } from './Entry';
 { SimilarTransactionJson, TAccountJson } from '../../types/BankingTypes'

Reproduces without extensions: Yes

[vscodebot]

(Experimental duplicate detection)
Thanks for submitting this issue. Please also check if it is already covered by an existing one, like:

• Auto import does not work when last import is type import (#44150)
• js import error (#43938)
• Do not auto import relative paths ever (#46194)
• TypeScript and JavaScript organize imports (#45108)

[karlhorky]

I suppose this will just get closed with a "won't fix" like #44150 (comment) or #39743 (comment), but maybe it would be an idea to re-consider making a single exception for import type, since this will probably keep coming up.

[mjbvz]

Yes, duplicate of those issues. We can't guarantee that the built-in js/ts extension will ever do the right thing for flow code even though it uses the .js file extension. Both the suggestions and the auto-imports need to come from the Flow vscode extension