This package must declare `@types/long` as a dependency

[alamothe]

This package must declare @types/long as a dependency since it's importing "long" in its typings.

Please check: https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/migration#fix-dependencies-with-packageextensions

[minherz]

hi @alamothe , can you be more specific about this dependency? I do not find the use of long type anywhere in the code.

[alamothe]

@minherz Thank you for your reply!

It exists in the build artifact under build/protos/protos.d.ts:

import * as Long from "long";
import {protobuf as $protobuf} from "google-gax";
/** Namespace google. */
export namespace google {

    /** Namespace protobuf. */
    namespace protobuf {

        /** Properties of a Duration. */
        interface IDuration {

            /** Duration seconds */
            seconds?: (number|Long|string|null);

The way I understand it is, TypeScript will complain unless @types/long is included as someone else's dependency. However, Yarn 2 is strict about this and it results in a compile-time error.

[minherz]

Thank you. So, you are looking to add this type to the list of dependencies in the package.json: https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-logging/blob/ee07a7df9bfffc549754dd1915039d846e4c042f/package.json#L47

We have the package on Yarn 2 for quite some time and this is a first time we get this request. Can you please describe the environment you are running and what error you get at compile time? We would like to reproduce the problem in order to understand why it wasn't raised before.