Question about new typings

I see that the individual block types have been removed and replaced with a large generic union on the responses of some queries.

for example (have removed some properties for clarity):

ListBlockChildrenResponse["results"] = Array<
           {
              type: "paragraph";
              ...stuff
             } | { 
              type: "heading_1";
             ...stuff

... and so on

So a Block I guess can now be represented by:

export type Block = ListBlockChildrenResponse["results"][0]

The same goes for the Database type

export type Database = QueryDatabaseResponse["results"][0]

But when I have a database that has properties on it like “Name” or “Slug”, how do I correctly extend the properties type so that its possible to access it without TS complaining, before I could do something like:

const name = (database.properties.Name as TitlePropertyValue).title[0].plain_text

But now that the TitlePropertyValue type doesn’t exist, not really sure to handle the custom properties?

Any ideas?

Thanks

[peetjvv]

I’m also finding the removal/change of these types frustrating. Was really nice to just be able to import them directly.

[ghost]

This made the client much much harder to work with when using typescript. Also the type hints that you get from visual code etc is more or less unreadable 😕