Typescript doc visible for aliased imports, but not for single ones.

From @Elarcis on September 21, 2016 7:35

• VSCode Version: 1.5.2
• OS Version: Windows 7 Service Pack 1
• Typescript version: 2.0.2

Steps to Reproduce:

1. have a myClass.ts file exporting a MyClass class. Write some /** */ doc for that class.
2. In another file, try the following two ways of importing identifiers:

import { MyClass } from 'myModule';
MyClass // When hovering MyClass, the written doc is not visible.

import * as myModule from 'myModule';
myModule.MyClass // When hovering MyClass, the written doc appears.

It seems logical that the doc should appear in both cases, is this due to Typescript 2?

Copied from original issue: Microsoft/vscode#12360

[aluanhaddad]

This is currently a huge painpoint. Improving this would be a very big win.

[rozzzly]

I’d also like to point out that default imports don’t get the (js)doc for that export either.

import SomeDefaultExport from './FooBar';

Hovering over SomeDefaultExport in both the import declaration as well as it’s uses in code will just show “import SomeDefaultExport”.

I’m not at my desktop at the moment, so I haven’t tested this, but imagine the same problem would exist with imports like this:

import { Foo as Bar } from './FooBar';

I’ll update this post when I’m able to test that.

My experience with this bug are in typescript, but I would imagine there would be the issue with javascript (that uses es2015 imports). I’ll test that out too.

Edit

the same issues also appears with JavaScript. In addition, this syntax also has the same problem.

import { Foo as Bar } from './FooBar';