[api-extractor] Re-exported namespace members not included in the report

[hiranya911]

Is this a feature or a bug?

• [ ] Feature
• [X] Bug

Please describe the actual behavior.

Consider the following entrypoint implementation:

import * as _auth from './auth/auth';

export namespace auth {
    export import Auth = _auth.Auth;
    export import UserRecord = _auth.UserRecord;
}

Note that the auth namespace re-exports several types from another module. I expect definitions of Auth and UserRecord to be included in the generated API report. But this is all I get:

// @public (undocumented)
export namespace auth {
    import Auth = _auth.Auth;
    import UserRecord = _auth.UserRecord;
}


// (No @packageDocumentation comment for this package)

If this is a bug, please provide the tool version, Node.js version, and OS.

• Tool: API Extractor
• Tool Version: v7.9.11
• Node Version: v10.22.0
• OS: Mac OS

[hiranya911]

Seeing the same problem with symbol re-exports from inside a namespace.

Input:

import { credential } from './credential';

export namespace admin {
  export { credential }
}

Generated report:

// @public (undocumented)
export namespace admin {
  { credential }
}


// (No @packageDocumentation comment for this package)

[pedroteixeira]

Hi, is this a known limitation, not considered best practice?

hmm I guess one can omit the export namespace and just declare it?

[maximzavadskiy]

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Hi, is this a known limitation, not considered best practice?

hmm I guess one can omit the export namespace and just declare it?

api-exporter would then omit un-exported namespaces from the final API report / d.ts bundle