OpenLayers and TypeScript?

Question

I was wondering if anybody knows if there are any existing TypeScript definition files for OpenLayers (or if they are already in the making).

I tried parsing the OpenLayers source files myself and use the documentation comments to build a TypeScript definition file but to really make this work I would need a complete JavaScript parser that also understand the documentation syntax in OpenLayers (it uses NaturalDocs, http://naturaldocs.org) and I'm beginning to think that translating the info by hand is easier than writing such a parser :(.

So does anybody now of a similar project or has an idea how to accomplish the task of generating those TypeScript definition files?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I haven't seen any mention of an OpenLayers.d.ts file yet but there's a growing list of definition files being tracked over here.

Answer 2

Today I have uploaded the definitions for OL 3.1.1 to Github: https://github.com/3x0dv5/ol3-typescript-definitions Feel free to use

Answer 3

There is no definition file yet. I also thought about creating one but instead just resorted to using it via ambient variable declaration.

Answer 4

This is not really an answer, but have you looked into closurets? https://github.com/teppeis/closure-ts It seems promising, however, I wasn't able to convert any ol3 js files. I will try to dig a bit deeper and let you know.

Answer 5

Here is a link to TypeScript definition files for Openlayers.

OpenLayers Definitionfiles