Interesting case for type inference

\ ឵឵឵

7 months ago

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payload.findByID({
  collection: req.collection.config.slug,
  ...
})

Type 'string' is not assignable to type '"users" | ...'.ts(2322)
The expected type comes from property 'collection' which is declared here on type 'Options<"users" | ...>'

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  jacobsfletch

  Payload Team

  7 months ago

  Ok so it sounds like

  req.collection.config.slug

  is typed as a generic string, but the local API will

  only

  except the exact slugs of your collections ("users", etc). Without looking at the code, this may be able to get resolved by improving the types at the hook-level to be a union of collection slugs. For now you might be available to import the slugs from your generated types to replace your

  as any

  type assertion.

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  \ ឵឵឵

  7 months ago

  Exactly. The goal is that the type of

  req.collection.config.slug

  is already that union, rather than remaining

  string

  .

  
  

  
  

  It would be great if that same typing could be applied to

  relationTo

  as well.