Invalid type inference for optional chaining operator when nullish check is extracted to const varaiable

🔎 Search Terms

"optional chaining operator", null check

🕗 Version & Regression Information

This is the behavior in every version I tried (from 4.4.4 to 5.5.0-dev.20240523)

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https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/?ts=5.5.0-dev.20240523#code/JYOwLgpgTgZghgYwgAgGIHt3IN4ChkHJwBcyAzmFKAObIA+yIArgDYsDcuAvrjEyAjDB0IZACM4UABQxMpDFgbM2AShz5CCERWTAyAOVYs9AC2QBeZLPQB+AHRwLl5Rw0FgMZFL2G2ptXiEQchQEGBMUCCcQTxBAPRxIRAADuhQYMgARADyYgBWEIK6ZMipZGTAYiwAnsgA5C51dlIATACsAMwAjCqZVmlZ1g6ZbshaIGToLBB2LOjUMpgOdmDoAKrJydAAwnBkEFIqKpw8QA

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interface Foo {
    a: string | null;
}
function bar(foo: Foo | null) {
    const isNullish = foo?.a == null;
    if (isNullish) {
        return;
    }
    // report "Object is possibly 'null'.(2531)" for "foo.a"
    console.log(foo.a.toUpperCase());
}

🙁 Actual behavior

Report an error Object is possibly 'null'.(2531) for foo.a

🙂 Expected behavior

No error is reported

Additional information about the issue

I don't know this behavior is a bug or intended, but based on PR #44730 , I chose 'bug' for this issue.

Per #44730:

Narrowing through indirect references occurs only when the conditional expression or discriminant property access is declared in a const variable declaration with no type annotation, and the reference being narrowed is a const variable, a readonly property, or a parameter for which there are no assignments in the function body.

So just mark the property a as readonly and it works.

interface Foo {
    readonly a: string | null;
}

Thanks for the response. I missed that this is applied only for 'a readonly property'.
I'll close the issue.

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Invalid type inference for optional chaining operator when nullish check is extracted to `const` varaiable #58632

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whzx5byb commented on May 23, 2024

jet2jet commented on May 23, 2024

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Invalid type inference for optional chaining operator when nullish check is extracted to `const` varaiable #58632