How do you add methods when using typescript?

I believe I might have found an issue with how cheerio exports types, but I’m new to typescript, so I’m not sure I’m not just missing how to get it done.

I’m running v1.0.0-rc.5, and I’d like to be able to add some methods to the Cheerio interface, so that when I run a selector query, I get back the full api (both mine and the core methods). I had better luck using @types/cheerio, as it seemed to expose more of the API, but I wasn’t able to get it fully working there either. For that reason, I’m not sure #1682 is going to fully solve the problem.

I’d like to be able to include a code sample, but working against v1, nothing I came up with is close. If it is possible with the current release, I’d just like to know how to do it. Thanks!

[mikestopcontinues]

Hi, this issue should be re-opened. I don’t know how #1407 got it working. Perhaps he was using @types/cheerio? Merging doesn’t work on any level (global, module, namespace). Any attempt just overrides the base interfaces. I can’t be sure, but I suspect the issue is that the interfaces aren’t being exported. In the examples here, they are exporting everything they merge.

[mikestopcontinues]

Just want to add, you need to include export {} (or export anything) in your .d.ts file for the new method to work. Otherwise the custom definition overrides the basic export types.