Typescript: Auto import suggestions in TS 2.6 : wrong strategy for import paths

[cyrilletuzi]

TypeScript Version: 2.7.0-dev.20171102
VSCode Version: Insiders, same date

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In an Angular project, start typing any Angular code, like :

@Inp

and select the auto-import suggestion.

Expected behavior:

Should import top level export :

import { Input } from '@angular/core';

Actual behavior:

Imports deep level export :

import { Input } from '@angular/core/src/metadata/directives';

It was handled fine when just one auto-import was suggested (see #19417).

Also, there was the same issue with the Import quick fix (#15223), but which was resolved a long time ago.

@mhegazy @mjbvz

[andy-ms]

Currently we dedupe by always pointing you to the original rather than a re-export.
We could be smarter by comparing all re-exports of the same symbol and choosing the one with the smallest path. We should probably do that in completion details rather than entries to save work, meaning the completion identifier would still use the source of the original export.

[mhegazy]

We should always get the top most file, and not the source. usually the source is buried deep inside the module guts.

[cyrilletuzi]

Can't we just use the same code from the import quick fix ?

[mhegazy]

Some duplicates of this issue:

• https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/19922
• https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/19889
• https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/19888
• https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/17705

@andy-ms let's verify that the fix does indeed fix all these cases.

[mhegazy]

Should be fixed by https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/pull/20049

[nazarkryp]

@mhegazy
it is not fixed yet.

[andy-ms]

@nazarkryp When I use typescript@next and type ElementRe the completion is from @angular/core. Could you double check that your editor is using typescript 2.7.0-dev.20171203?

[TedDriggs]

I still reproduce this on typescript 2.7.1. My folder structure is:

    Textarea
        index.ts
        Autosizing.tsx
        Textarea.tsx

Textarea.tsx has export default class Textarea, and then index.ts imports that and re-exports it as index.ts's default:

import AutosizingTextarea from './Autosizing';
import Textarea, { TextareaProps } from './Textarea';

export { Textarea as default, TextareaProps, AutosizingTextarea };

When I type Textarea elsewhere in the project, the suggested import path is components/Textarea/Textarea, but based on this I'd expect it to suggest components/Textarea. Is our project configured wrong to take advantage of this fix?

[andy-ms]

@TedDriggs That's interesting, I was able to reproduce that, then noticed that I didn't have "jsx" enabled in my tsconfig.json, and after enabling that I correctly got completions from index. Could you check if that is the problem? If not, could you get a complete reproducible example with tsconfig.json included?

[TedDriggs]

@andy-ms I had a repro but when I restarted and updated VS Code it started working properly. I've got Code configured to use our project's version of TS rather than VS Code's own and we were on 2.7.1 already, but maybe the editor's autocomplete didn't know about that?

[andy-ms]

Well, the tsserver used for autocomplete is the same as the tsserver used for everything else. But glad to hear this is working now. Possibly there was some problem with the config not being picked up.

[kumarharsh]

I have a JS project with jsconfig.json file which reads as so:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ES6",
    "module": "es2015",
    "baseUrl": "./src"
  },
  "exclude": ["node_modules", "scripts", "build"]
}

Clone this MCVE project: https://github.com/kumarharsh/ts-autoimport-bug, go to the Landing.js file and try completing the update call:

The autoimport item inserted is wrong - the actual import should be utils/update, but the inserted one is utils/fetch - I checked the fetch file, and there doesn't even seem to be an update word anywhere in the whole file or in the file it imports (node_modules\isomorphic-fetch\fetch-npm-node.js). So, where is the update autoimport coming from?

Also, although it doesn't happen in the MCVE project I posted above, in my real project this happens (all files in question are the same as in the MCVE):

• Autoimport is shown as update (imported from) utils/fetch
• Press Enter
• Autoimport inserted as `update from 'utils/fetch'.
• But, if I have this line already in my file: import { createSelector } from 'utils/reselect';, and I do the three steps, it inserts: import update, { createSelector } from 'utils/reselect';

See reproduction:

[TedDriggs]

@andy-ms is it possible that the fix for preferring shortest path would cause the quick-fix as you're typing to prefer ../../Interface over components/Interface? Our team avoids using relative paths, but I've noticed that lately VS Code has been suggesting relatives unless I finish typing and then press Ctrl-. to see all options.