在大多数有用的程序的核心,我们必须根据输入做出决策。JavaScript 程序也不例外,但鉴于值可以轻松地被检查,这些决策也基于输入的类型。_条件类型_有助于描述输入类型和输出类型之间的关系。
🌐 At the heart of most useful programs, we have to make decisions based on input. JavaScript programs are no different, but given the fact that values can be easily introspected, those decisions are also based on the types of the inputs. Conditional types help describe the relation between the types of inputs and outputs.
tsTryinterfaceAnimal {live (): void;}interfaceDog extendsAnimal {woof (): void;}typeExample1 =Dog extendsAnimal ? number : string;typeExample2 =RegExp extendsAnimal ? number : string;
条件类型的形式看起来有点像 JavaScript 中的条件表达式(condition ? trueExpression : falseExpression):
🌐 Conditional types take a form that looks a little like conditional expressions (condition ? trueExpression : falseExpression) in JavaScript:
tsTrySomeType extendsOtherType ?TrueType :FalseType ;
当 extends 左侧的类型可以赋值给右侧的类型时,你将得到第一分支(“true”分支)中的类型;否则你将得到后一个分支(“false”分支)中的类型。
🌐 When the type on the left of the extends is assignable to the one on the right, then you’ll get the type in the first branch (the “true” branch); otherwise you’ll get the type in the latter branch (the “false” branch).
从上面的例子来看,条件类型可能看起来并不那么有用——我们可以自己判断是否是 Dog extends Animal,然后选择 number 或 string!但条件类型的强大之处在于将它们与泛型一起使用时。
🌐 From the examples above, conditional types might not immediately seem useful - we can tell ourselves whether or not Dog extends Animal and pick number or string!
But the power of conditional types comes from using them with generics.
例如,我们来看以下 createLabel 函数:
🌐 For example, let’s take the following createLabel function:
tsTryinterfaceIdLabel {id : number /* some fields */;}interfaceNameLabel {name : string /* other fields */;}functioncreateLabel (id : number):IdLabel ;functioncreateLabel (name : string):NameLabel ;functioncreateLabel (nameOrId : string | number):IdLabel |NameLabel ;functioncreateLabel (nameOrId : string | number):IdLabel |NameLabel {throw "unimplemented";}
这些 createLabel 的重载描述了一个根据输入类型进行选择的 JavaScript 函数。注意几点:
🌐 These overloads for createLabel describe a single JavaScript function that makes a choice based on the types of its inputs. Note a few things:
- 如果一个库必须在其 API 中一遍又一遍地做出相同的选择,这将变得很麻烦。
- 我们必须创建三种重载:一种用于每种我们确定类型的情况(一个用于
string,一个用于number),还有一种用于最通用的情况(接受一个string | number)。对于每种createLabel可以处理的新类型,重载的数量都会呈指数增长。
相反,我们可以将该逻辑编码为条件类型:
🌐 Instead, we can encode that logic in a conditional type:
tsTrytypeNameOrId <T extends number | string> =T extends number?IdLabel :NameLabel ;
然后,我们可以使用该条件类型将重载简化为没有重载的单个函数。
🌐 We can then use that conditional type to simplify our overloads down to a single function with no overloads.
tsTryfunctioncreateLabel <T extends number | string>(idOrName :T ):NameOrId <T > {throw "unimplemented";}leta =createLabel ("typescript");letb =createLabel (2.8);letc =createLabel (Math .random () ? "hello" : 42);
条件类型约束
🌐 Conditional Type Constraints
通常,条件类型中的检查会为我们提供一些新的信息。就像使用类型保护进行类型收窄可以给我们更具体的类型一样,条件类型的 true 分支会通过我们检查的类型进一步限制泛型。
🌐 Often, the checks in a conditional type will provide us with some new information. Just like narrowing with type guards can give us a more specific type, the true branch of a conditional type will further constrain generics by the type we check against.
例如,让我们采取以下措施:
🌐 For example, let’s take the following:
tsTrytypeType '"message"' cannot be used to index type 'T'.2536Type '"message"' cannot be used to index type 'T'.MessageOf <T > =T ["message"];
在这个例子中,TypeScript 会报错,因为 T 并不知道有一个叫做 message 的属性。
我们可以约束 T,这样 TypeScript 就不会再抱怨了:
🌐 In this example, TypeScript errors because T isn’t known to have a property called message.
We could constrain T, and TypeScript would no longer complain:
tsTrytypeMessageOf <T extends {message : unknown }> =T ["message"];interfacemessage : string;}typeEmailMessageContents =MessageOf <
但是,如果我们希望 MessageOf 可以接受任何类型,并且在 message 属性不可用时默认使用类似 never 的东西,该怎么办呢?
我们可以通过将约束移出并引入条件类型来实现这一点:
🌐 However, what if we wanted MessageOf to take any type, and default to something like never if a message property isn’t available?
We can do this by moving the constraint out and introducing a conditional type:
tsTrytypeMessageOf <T > =T extends {message : unknown } ?T ["message"] : never;interfacemessage : string;}interfaceDog {bark (): void;}typeEmailMessageContents =MessageOf <typeDogMessageContents =MessageOf <Dog >;
在真正的分支中,TypeScript 知道 T 将会 拥有一个 message 属性。
🌐 Within the true branch, TypeScript knows that T will have a message property.
作为另一个例子,我们还可以编写一个名为 Flatten 的类型,它将数组类型扁平化为其元素类型,但在其他情况下保持不变:
🌐 As another example, we could also write a type called Flatten that flattens array types to their element types, but leaves them alone otherwise:
tsTrytypeFlatten <T > =T extends any[] ?T [number] :T ;// Extracts out the element type.typeStr =Flatten <string[]>;// Leaves the type alone.typeNum =Flatten <number>;
当 Flatten 获得一个数组类型时,它会使用带有 number 的索引访问来获取 string[] 的元素类型。否则,它只是返回它获得的类型。
🌐 When Flatten is given an array type, it uses an indexed access with number to fetch out string[]’s element type.
Otherwise, it just returns the type it was given.
在条件类型中推断
🌐 Inferring Within Conditional Types
我们发现自己经常使用条件类型来应用约束,然后提取类型。这成了一种非常常见的操作,而条件类型使这一过程更加容易。
🌐 We just found ourselves using conditional types to apply constraints and then extract out types. This ends up being such a common operation that conditional types make it easier.
条件类型为我们提供了一种方法,通过在 infer 关键字中使用的 true 分支,从我们比较的类型中进行推断。例如,我们可以在 Flatten 中推断元素类型,而不是通过索引访问类型“手动”获取它:
🌐 Conditional types provide us with a way to infer from types we compare against in the true branch using the infer keyword.
For example, we could have inferred the element type in Flatten instead of fetching it out “manually” with an indexed access type:
tsTrytypeFlatten <Type > =Type extendsArray <inferItem > ?Item :Type ;
在这里,我们使用 infer 关键字以声明的方式引入一个名为 Item 的新泛型类型变量,而不是指定如何在 true 分支中获取 Type 的元素类型。这使我们无需考虑如何深入挖掘和解析我们所关注的类型结构。
🌐 Here, we used the infer keyword to declaratively introduce a new generic type variable named Item instead of specifying how to retrieve the element type of Type within the true branch.
This frees us from having to think about how to dig through and probing apart the structure of the types we’re interested in.
我们可以使用 infer 关键字编写一些有用的辅助类型别名。例如,对于简单的情况,我们可以从函数类型中提取返回类型:
🌐 We can write some useful helper type aliases using the infer keyword.
For example, for simple cases, we can extract the return type out from function types:
tsTrytypeGetReturnType <Type > =Type extends (...args : never[]) => inferReturn ?Return : never;typeNum =GetReturnType <() => number>;typeStr =GetReturnType <(x : string) => string>;typeBools =GetReturnType <(a : boolean,b : boolean) => boolean[]>;
当从具有多个调用签名的类型(例如重载函数的类型)进行推断时,推断是基于最后一个签名进行的(大概这是最宽松的通用情况)。无法根据参数类型列表执行重载解析。
🌐 When inferring from a type with multiple call signatures (such as the type of an overloaded function), inferences are made from the last signature (which, presumably, is the most permissive catch-all case). It is not possible to perform overload resolution based on a list of argument types.
tsTrydeclare functionstringOrNum (x : string): number;declare functionstringOrNum (x : number): string;declare functionstringOrNum (x : string | number): string | number;typeT1 =ReturnType <typeofstringOrNum >;
分布式条件类型
🌐 Distributive Conditional Types
当条件类型作用于泛型类型时,当传入联合类型时,它们会变成 分配式。例如,考虑以下内容:
🌐 When conditional types act on a generic type, they become distributive when given a union type. For example, take the following:
tsTrytypeToArray <Type > =Type extends any ?Type [] : never;
如果我们将联合类型传入 ToArray,那么条件类型将被应用到该联合类型的每个成员上。
🌐 If we plug a union type into ToArray, then the conditional type will be applied to each member of that union.
tsTrytypeToArray <Type > =Type extends any ?Type [] : never;typeStrArrOrNumArr =ToArray <string | number>;
这里发生的情况是 ToArray 分布在:
🌐 What happens here is that ToArray distributes on:
tsTrystring | number;
并将联合的每个成员类型映射到有效的内容:
🌐 and maps over each member type of the union, to what is effectively:
tsTryToArray <string> |ToArray <number>;
这给我们留下了:
🌐 which leaves us with:
tsTrystring[] | number[];
通常,分配性是期望的行为。要避免这种行为,你可以用方括号将 extends 关键字的两边括起来。
🌐 Typically, distributivity is the desired behavior.
To avoid that behavior, you can surround each side of the extends keyword with square brackets.
tsTrytypeToArrayNonDist <Type > = [Type ] extends [any] ?Type [] : never;// 'ArrOfStrOrNum' is no longer a union.typeArrOfStrOrNum =ToArrayNonDist <string | number>;