typescript - namespaces not included on import

Question

I have an angular application, written in typescript whose config registration was just getting out of control, and huge - it took up about 3 pages.

So I broke it up into multiple config(fn) sections, and moved as much logic out of that page as I could and encapsulated specific behaviors into their own classes; it seemed like the smart way to go about cleaning it up.

each of the new classes looks something like this;

namespace config {
    export class http {
       constructor($httpProvider: ng.IHttpProvider){
           // $httpProvider configuration
       }
    }
}

so back in my main.ts , the file that creates my module and registers everything, I import them over.

import { http } from './config/http';
import { router } from ./config/router';
// etc.

but the namespace doesn't seem to be a part of this. I cannot call them such as...

config(config.http)
config(config.router)
// etc.

I've had to instead give them new alias when bringing them in;

import { http as configHttp } from './config/http';
import { router as configRouter } from './config/router';
// etc.

Why is this? Is there anything I can do to keep the namespace definition intact and use the simpler method I was aiming for?

Answer 1

The namespace you have is redundant if you're using import statements.

Here:

import { http } from './config/http';

You're asking only for the http class in that file so that's what you're getting.

Also, if anything it should be module config and not namespace config .
You should read Namespaces and Modules and more precisely Needless Namespacing .