Nuxt•9mo ago

How to infer the type from `useAsyncData`?

I am getting a list of products through api endpoint. Using useAsyncData it knows what it will be returning, which is great! However, I want to know which product is currently being viewed/selected and I want to give that ref a type that is infered from this data.

const selectedProduct = shallowRef<typeof products.value>()
const { data: products } = await useAsyncData('products', () =>
  $fetch('/api/products'),
)

const selectedProduct = shallowRef<typeof products.value>()
const { data: products } = await useAsyncData('products', () =>
  $fetch('/api/products'),
)

Here's the thing tho, I want to make that type a single item, not an array of items. But I have no ideas how to unwrap this infered type from Simplify and SerializeObject.

const selectedProduct: ShallowRef<Simplify<SerializeObject<{
    id: number;
    price: number;
    checkoutId: string | undefined;
    recurrence: string;
    label: string;
    description: string;
}>[] | undefined> | null>

const selectedProduct: ShallowRef<Simplify<SerializeObject<{
    id: number;
    price: number;
    checkoutId: string | undefined;
    recurrence: string;
    label: string;
    description: string;
}>[] | undefined> | null>

Help is greatly appreciated!

5 Replies

pyplacca•9mo ago

typeof products.value[0]?

Nenad NovakovicOP•9mo ago

Tried [number] and tried [0] and then Type error comes up:

Property '0' does not exist on type 'Simplify<SerializeObject<{ id: number; price: number; checkoutId: string | undefined; recurrence: string; label: string; description: string; }>[] | undefined> | null'.

Property '0' does not exist on type 'Simplify<SerializeObject<{ id: number; price: number; checkoutId: string | undefined; recurrence: string; label: string; description: string; }>[] | undefined> | null'.

Fabian B.•9mo ago

You have to also wrap it in a NonNullable<> before you try to access the array with [number] So NonNullable<typeof products.value>[number] should work in your case This is because you cannot select an array item if the possible value is something like [...] | null | undefined

Nenad NovakovicOP•9mo ago

Would you look at that. Completely forgot about NonNullable last night. Thanks a lot @Fabian B.

Fabian B.•9mo ago

Happy to help 🙂

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