javascript - 'new' expression, whose target lacks a construct signature in TypeScript

Question

We have the following TestComponent.ts TypeScript class:

01: import TestVectorLayer from './TestVectorLayer'
02: 
03: export class TestComponent implements OnInit {
04:   private foo: any;
05: 
06:   constructor() { }
07: 
08:   const layer = new TestVectorLayer("foo");
09: }

And the following TestVectorLayer.ts function:

Keep in mind that OpenLayer's 3 is using the Google Closure Library, that's why TestVectorLayer is not a TypeScript class.

01: declare let ol: any;
02:
03: const TestVectorLayer = function (layerName: string) {
04:   ...
05:   console.log(layerName);
06:
07:   ol.layer.Image.call(this, opts);
08: }
09:
10: ol.inherits(TestVectorLayer as any, ol.layer.Image as any);
11:
12: export default TestVectorLayer; 

We're getting the following error:

Error on Line 08 in TestComponent.ts class:

[ts] 'new' expression, whose target lacks a construct signature, implicitly has an 'any' type. import TestVectorLayer

The package.json versions of TypeScript:

devDependencies:

"typescript": "~2.2.1"

Answer 1

David answer is great, but if you care just about quickly making it compile (for example because you are migrating from JS to TS) then you can simply put any there to shut up complaining compiler.

TS file:

const TestConstructorFunction = function (this: any, a: any, b: any) {
    this.a = a;
    this.b = b;
};

let test1 = new (TestConstructorFunction as any)(1, 2);

compiles to this JS file:

var TestConstructor = function (a, b) {
    this.a = a;
    this.b = b;
};
var test1 = new TestConstructor(1, 2);

---

Just pay attention to not make this mistake:

TS file:

// wrong!
let test2 = new (TestConstructorFunction(1, 2) as any);

JS result:

// wrong!
var test2 = new (TestConstructor(1, 2));

and this is wrong. You'll get TypeError: TestConstructor(...) is not a constructor error at runtime.