Typescript definition file for to$q

Question

I am hoping that I can get some help. I have been trying use to$q in an angular application that I am trying to describe using typescript. But I am struggling. I have tried to create a type definition file as follows:

/// <reference path="../q/Q.d.ts" />
/// <reference path="../angularjs/angular.d.ts" />

declare module breeze.core {
    export function extendQ(rootScope: ng.IScope, q: Q.Promise<any>): any;
    export function to$q(qPromise: Q.Promise<any>, success: any, fail: any): any;
}

But the javascript code is acting more like a c# extension method and I dont know how to achieve a similar affect with typescript. Note that I have only basic experience in javascript and that breeze is compleletely new to me.

Answer 1

That's good to know, @basarat.

But more important ... we have deprecated to$q in favor of using $q for promises throughout your Breeze app. That's right. Breeze no longer depends on Q.js (although that remains the default).

Please use Breeze.Angular.Q instead. It is available as a NuGet package or directly from GitHub. See the Breeze Labs documentation for it.

You simply configure Breeze to use the $q instance for your app module and then write your breeze code against $q promises. For example

var promise = entityManager
   .executeQuery(query)
   .then(successCallback)
   .catch(failCallback) 
   .finally(finalCallback);

Answer 2

$q is defined in angularjs type definitions here

You should not need to reference q.d.ts