import { protos } from 'my_company_protos' export type User = protos.user.User; 

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 import { protos } from './my_company_protos' export type User = protos.user.User; 

 export namespace protos { export namespace user { export interface User { username: string; info: protos.Info.User; } } export namespace Info { export interface User { name: protos.Info.Name; } export interface Name { firstName: string; lastName: string; } } } 

 import ts from "typescript"; // hardcode our input file const filePath = "./src/models.ts"; // create a program instance, which is a collection of source files // in this case we only have one source file const program = ts.createProgram([filePath], {}); // pull off the typechecker instance from our program const checker = program.getTypeChecker(); // get our models.ts source file AST const source = program.getSourceFile(filePath); // create TS printer instance which gives us utilities to pretty print our final AST const printer = ts.createPrinter(); // helper to give us Node string type given kind const syntaxToKind = (kind: ts.Node["kind"]) => { return ts.SyntaxKind[kind]; }; // visit each node in the root AST and log its kind ts.forEachChild(source, node => { console.log(syntaxToKind(node.kind)); }); 

 ts.forEachChild(source, node => { if (ts.isTypeAliasDeclaration(node)) { console.log(node.kind); } }) // prints TypeAliasDeclaration 

 ts.forEachChild(source, node => { if (ts.isTypeAliasDeclaration(node)) { const symbol = checker.getSymbolAtLocation(node.name); const type = checker.getDeclaredTypeOfSymbol(symbol); const properties = checker.getPropertiesOfType(type); properties.forEach(declaration => { console.log(declaration.name); // prints username, info }); } }); 

 const source = ` const two = 2; const four = 4; `; function numberTransformer<T extends ts.Node>(): ts.TransformerFactory<T> { return context => { const visit: ts.Visitor = node => { if (ts.isNumericLiteral(node)) { return ts.createStringLiteral(node.text); } return ts.visitEachChild(node, child => visit(child), context); }; return node => ts.visitNode(node, visit); }; } let result = ts.transpileModule(source, { compilerOptions: { module: ts.ModuleKind.CommonJS }, transformers: { before: [numberTransformer()] } }); console.log(result.outputText); /* var two = "2"; var four = "4"; 

 // input export namespace protos { // ModuleDeclaration export namespace user { // ModuleDeclaration // Module Block export interface User { // InterfaceDeclaration username: string; // username: string is PropertySignature info: protos.Info.User; // TypeReference } } export namespace Info { export interface User { name: protos.Info.Name; // TypeReference } export interface Name { firstName: string; lastName: string; } } } // this line is a TypeAliasDeclaration export type User = protos.user.User; // protos.user.User is a TypeReference // output export interface User { username: string; info: { // info: { .. } is a TypeLiteral name: { // name: { .. } is a TypeLiteral firstName: string; lastName: string; } } } 

 import path from 'path'; import ts from 'typescript'; import _ from 'lodash'; import fs from 'fs'; const filePath = path.resolve(_.first(process.argv.slice(2))); const program = ts.createProgram([filePath], {}); const checker = program.getTypeChecker(); const source = program.getSourceFile(filePath); const printer = ts.createPrinter(); const typeAliasToInterfaceTransformer: ts.TransformerFactory<ts.SourceFile> = context => { const visit: ts.Visitor = node => { node = ts.visitEachChild(node, visit, context); /* Convert type references to type literals interface IUser { username: string } type User = IUser <--- IUser is a type reference interface Context { user: User <--- User is a type reference } In both cases we want to convert the type reference to it's primitive literals. We want: interface IUser { username: string } type User = { username: string } interface Context { user: { username: string } } */ if (ts.isTypeReferenceNode(node)) { const symbol = checker.getSymbolAtLocation(node.typeName); const type = checker.getDeclaredTypeOfSymbol(symbol); const declarations = _.flatMap(checker.getPropertiesOfType(type), property => { /* Type references declarations may themselves have type references, so we need to resolve those literals as well */ return _.map(property.declarations, visit); }); return ts.createTypeLiteralNode(declarations.filter(ts.isTypeElement)); } /* Convert type alias to interface declaration interface IUser { username: string } type User = IUser We want to remove all type aliases interface IUser { username: string } interface User { username: string <-- Also need to resolve IUser } */ if (ts.isTypeAliasDeclaration(node)) { const symbol = checker.getSymbolAtLocation(node.name); const type = checker.getDeclaredTypeOfSymbol(symbol); const declarations = _.flatMap(checker.getPropertiesOfType(type), property => { // Resolve type alias to it's literals return _.map(property.declarations, visit); }); // Create interface with fully resolved types return ts.createInterfaceDeclaration( [], [ts.createToken(ts.SyntaxKind.ExportKeyword)], node.name.getText(), [], [], declarations.filter(ts.isTypeElement) ); } // Remove all export declarations if (ts.isImportDeclaration(node)) { return null; } return node; }; return node => ts.visitNode(node, visit); }; // Run source file through our transformer const result = ts.transform(source, [typeAliasToInterfaceTransformer]); // Create our output folder const outputDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '../generated'); if (!fs.existsSync(outputDir)) { fs.mkdirSync(outputDir); } // Write pretty printed transformed typescript to output directory fs.writeFileSync( path.resolve(__dirname, '../generated/models.ts'), printer.printFile(_.first(result.transformed)) );