TypeScript: How to customize types definition of bottle.container ?

[Rémi Alvergnat]

I'm using bottlejs with TypeScript, but I need to write this anoying stuff to make TypeScript compiler happy.

// I don't use TypeScript to finally write this :(
(bottle.container as any).MapCache as MapCache; 

It seems to be possible to extend typings definitions with declarations merge features, but I can't make it work.

In typings.d.ts, I have other declarations, and when I try to write this one:

declare module Bottle {
    import MapCAche from "./utils/mapcache"; // This is a .ts module, not a .d.ts definition file

    interface IContainer {
        MapCache: MapCache;
    }
}

It gives a compiler error : TS1147:Import declarations in a namespace cannot reference a module.

Any idea to make it work ? How to add types definition on the container ?

[Rémi Alvergnat]

I read the TypeScript doc page about declarations merge until the end, and I found the answer in the last section :). This example just work as expected :

import Bottle from "bottlejs";
import MapCache from "./utils/mapcache";

let bottle = new Bottle();
bottle.service("MapCache", () => MapCache);

export default bottle;

declare module "bottlejs" { // Use the same module name as the import string
    interface IContainer {
        MapCache: MapCache;
    }
}

[Wouter Lemcke]

Is there a way this could work with dynamic named properties?
We define our services like bottle.service(EventService.name, EventService), and retrieve it by using the name property again: container[EventService.name].

But how would you define that in the interface?