Generate a typescript interface that references itself

问题

EDIT: I have rewritten this question to be much clearer.

I am trying to programmatically infer an interface which references itself.

I am writing some code which can encode a recursive structure in binary. For example:

const myTreeEncoder = Struct(Self => ({
    name: Str,
    children: List(Self)
});

This can encode structures like this from binary and back:

const someUint8Array = myTreeEncoder.encode({
    name: 'parent',
    children: [{
        name: 'child',
        children: []
    }]
});

The problem is, how can the encode function be typed correctly so it expects an input of:

interface BinaryTree {
    name: string;
    children: BinaryTree[];
}

Here is a minimal reproducible example

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60305599/generate-a-typescript-interface-that-references-itself