ModuleDefinition support

[skyne98]

Hey! Trying to compile pixi and phaser definitions I stumbled upon unimplemented ModuleDefinition.

Any plans to support it soon? Any help needed?

[kjpou1]

Hello

Have been away on other priorities but can look into it. All help is greatly needed and appreciated just let me know what you would like to do and ask questions here.

Have not looked at ModuleDefinition but we can look at it together if you would like. That way we can improve the generator and target the specifics that you would like.

Thank you for the interest in the project.

[liquidboy]

Just to add more detail to this issue ...

The offending line in the pixi.js.d.ts is below

declare module 'pixi.js' { export = PIXI; }

error from TsToCSharp:

Error: Unknown statement kind 'ModuleDeclaration'
at visitStatement (E:\Source\Github\mono\TsToCSharp\dist\TsToCSharpGenerator.js:41:19)
at node.getStatements.forEach.statement (E:\Source\Github\mono\TsToCSharp\dist\TsToCSharpGenerator.js:29:59)
at Array.forEach ()
at visitStatements (E:\Source\Github\mono\TsToCSharp\dist\TsToCSharpGenerator.js:29:26)
at Object.TsToCSharpGenerator (E:\Source\Github\mono\TsToCSharp\dist\TsToCSharpGenerator.js:14:5)
at sfs.forEach.astSourceFile (E:\Source\Github\mono\TsToCSharp\dist\TStoCSharp.js:38:60)
at Array.forEach ()
at genOptions.fileList.forEach.fileName (E:\Source\Github\mono\TsToCSharp\dist\TStoCSharp.js:37:21)
at Array.forEach ()
at Function.main (E:\Source\Github\mono\TsToCSharp\dist\TStoCSharp.js:31:33)

ref : pixijs/pixi-typescript

[liquidboy]

What would this TS translate to in the C# world ? A singleton instance of the PIXI class ?

i see from the TS documentation

The export = syntax specifies a single object that is exported from the module. This can be a class, interface, namespace, function, or enum.

When exporting a module using export =, TypeScript-specific import module = require("module") must be used to import the module.

ref : modules export =

[liquidboy]

Investigating a bit more i see we'll need to upgrade the package versions of

1. ts-simple-ast
2. typescript

Which will require fixing breaking changes ...

Once we have the latest of those supporting libs, the sast should support "Module" after which we just need to add support for Module in

1. TsToCSharpGenerator

Then adding some tests ..