Selecting Nested Typescript Type Generics Inside Array

Question

I have the following generated type from a GraphQL query.

type Maybe<T> = T | null

...

export type DealFragmentFragment = { __typename: "Deal" } & Pick<
  Deal,
  "id" | "registeringStateEnum" | "status" | "offerStatus"
> & {
    users: Maybe<Array<{ __typename: "User" } & Pick<User, "id" | "name">>>
    >

I have a React function that takes a User passed down from the above query.

function userCard({ user }) {
   // ...do stuff
}

My question is how do I select the User subset from DealFragmentFragment ?

function userCard({ user }: { user: DealFragmentFragment["users"] }) {
   // ...do stuff
}

What goes after DealFragmentFragment["users"] to get "inside" of the array and Maybe to show the id and name properties?

Thank you!

Answer 1

If you want to extract the type of nested element from array, you can do this:

// Let's assume the following is your result array:
const result = [{user: {id: 1, name: "abc"}}];
type t1 = typeof result // this will give you the type of the array
type t2 = typeof result[0] // This will give you the type of the element in the array.

type userId = typeof result[0][0] // Gives you the first key of the first element of the array.

Answer 2

I needed a helper...

type Unarray<T> = T extends Array<infer U> ? U : T;

Then...

function userCard({ user }: {user: Unarray<DealFragmentFragment["users"]> }) {
   // ...do stuff
}

Now user shows properties id and name . Thanks to How to get Type of Array in Typescript generics

If anyone has a better solution, please post it and I'll accept it. But otherwise this worked for me!