koa-better-body types are broken

[stevebaxter]

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• is this issue currently blocking your project? (no): no
• is this issue affecting a production system? (no): no

Context

• node version: 12.16.3
• module version: koa-better-body 3.3.9
• environment (e.g. node, browser, native): node
• used with (i.e. popular names of modules): Koa
• any other relevant information:

What are you trying to achieve or the steps to reproduce?

Use koa-better-body with typescript

What was the result you got?

@types/koa-better-body says that types are already included with koa-better-body but they are not

What result did you expect?

A type definition file, either at koa-better-body or at @types/koa-better-body

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[tunnckoCore]

Hi there. I think I received such issue previously. I think there was a PR there to revert back to the old version. Can't follow now, probably in the coming days.

The v3.2.x is nothing new. You can use the 3.1.x or 3.0.x types.

[stevebaxter]

There are 3.0 types but they don't seem to be complete. I ended up using a different solution, thought I would let you know though!

[tunnckoCore]

Yea, thanks, I should fix that. I had it in mind.

[macsj200]

I'm also running into this issue. I was using 3.0.4 and the types did not seem to be included. I also tried using 3.3.9 and 3.1.15.

@stevebaxter what was the different solution you found?

[tunnckoCore]

@macsj200 I was using 3.0.4

Just continue using them? Nothing has changed in the versions from last year, year-and-a-half.

[stevebaxter]

@macsj200 - I needed the raw body, I ended up unpacking it myself with raw-body, e.g.:

import getRawBody from "raw-body";
.
.
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  public async handleRequest(ctx: Context): Promise<void> {
    const rawBody = await getRawBody(ctx.req, { limit: "50mb", length: ctx.request.length });

    // Do something with the raw body...
  }

[macsj200]

@tunnckoCore when you say "continue using them" what do you mean? Like I said, the types did not seem to be included in 3.0.4.

[tunnckoCore]

Ah sorry, misread it.

[macsj200]

No worries, let me know if there's a solution you can think of or if you think I'm just doing something wrong.

Currently I'm thinking I will just have to shoehorn some custom types in the app code and use as typecasts to get around these issues, but obviously it's much cleaner to use the library-supplied types where possible.