I've just stumbled across the following syntax in TypeScript
export interface OrderPool {
[id: string]: Level3Order;
}
Could someone clarify what I am looking at?
Best I can understand is that this is an interface OrderPool which contains a property named Id of type string(array?) and something of type Level3Order????
What is the relationship of Level3Order to the property Id and is Id an array or single instance?
that means Objects that implement the interface OrderPool contain key/value pairs, where the key (called id in this case) is of type string and the value is of type Level3Order
for example this objects correctly implements the interface:
{
'item1': new Level3Order,
'anotherItem': new Level3Order
}
You could also have something like
export interface OrderPool {
[id: number]: Level3Order;
}
example:
{
1: new Level3Order(),
5: new Level3Order()
}
What it means is simply, "If you index into something of type OrderPool, you get back something of type Level3Order."
The type of the signature should always be string or number. The name of the parameter ("id") is immaterial.
Take a look at the example below to get a complete idea.
class Level3Order{
public dummy : number = 0;
}
export interface OrderPool {
[id :string]: Level3Order;
}
let pool : OrderPool ={}
pool["test"] = 5; //Error number is not assignable to Level3Order
pool["test"] = new Level3Order(); //Ok
pool["whatever"] = new Level3Order(); //Ok
pool.whatever = new Level3Order(); //Still ok
pool["test"].dummy = 5; // Dummy is a property on Level3Order, Ok
