types.late always typed as any

[sebikap-gm2]

Hi there!
I'm having an issue, where all the generated models which reference other models are typed as
someProp: types.union(types.undefined, types.late((): any => SomeNameModel))
The issue I'm having is with the "any" literal typing, which instead of typing "someProp" as being of type "SomeNameModel", it gets typed as "any".

While digging into the code, I understand that when generated with the command gets run with "--format ts" attribute, ": any" type is hardcoded. Link to file.

I'm not sure if this was intended to solve this issue, but it does not seems to be causing that problem.

Could that "any" typing be removed?

[Kyle Kashuba]

My assumption is that it's to work around circular dependencies, as recommended in mobx-state-tree's docs: https://mobx-state-tree.js.org/tips/circular-deps

Their reasoning is that since the data is type-safe at runtime, casting the any back into your model type is OK. Though from a cleanliness perspective it's not ideal.