Recommended way of typing records?

What is the best practice of getting typed fields for my records? I have tried a few different approaches, but I haven’t found any straightforward way.

In listResult1, I’m limited by ListResult is not exported from the sdk In listResult2, the getList function is not generic.

import PocketBase, {ListResult, Record} from 'pocketbase'
const client = new PocketBase('http://127.0.0.1:8090');

interface MyItem extends Record {
    name: string,
    age: number
}

async function example() {
    // ListResult type is not exported
    const listResult1: ListResult<MyItem> = await client.records.getList("my-item", 1, 20)

    // getList() is not generic
    const listResult2 = await client.records.getList<MyItem>("my-item", 1, 20)

    // the age field resolves to "any" instead of "number"
    listResult1.items[0].age
    listResult2.items[0].age
}

[ganigeorgiev]

@mnorlin Using type assertion as suggested by @silberjan is the easiest way to have typed records at the moment.

The generics suggestion is a nice one, although it will be a little hacky since the generic type cannot be used directly as constructor, but it is doable and I’ll consider it for the next major release (v0.8.0) that will be shipped with the changes from https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/issues/376.

[ganigeorgiev]

It’s a little too verbose in my opinion. I think the namespaced approach (aka. client.records.getList<T>) is more readable and easier to use.