HTTP_METHODS_PARTIAL_LOWERCASE is missing `head`

[Edoardo L'Astorina]

Runtime

node.js

Runtime version

18

Module version

21

Last module version without issue

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Any other relevant information

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

We have a controller that must only respond to the head method

Hapi works with it by creating a get route and then checking request.method for method === "head"

But types from @hapi/hapi do not support head!

In lib/types/utils.d.ts line 14:

export type HTTP_METHODS_PARTIAL_LOWERCASE = 'get' | 'post' | 'put' | 'patch' | 'delete' | 'options';

All we need to do to fix this is add | 'head' to the list!

What was the result you got?

if(method === "head") {

typescript: This comparison appears to be unintentional because the types 'HTTP_METHODS_PARTIAL_LOWERCASE' and '"head"' have no overlap. [2367]

What result did you expect?

Expected it to work!

I can raise a PR if you want?

[Gil Pedersen]

Thanks for the report.

I understand the issue, but your proposed fix is not suitable, as we don't want to allow head to be allowed in the route method field. I have looked further into it, and revised the method typings to be correct for all method fields in #4493. The exact typings for each method turns out to be unique for all of them.