x typescript creates types with errors

[matthew-dean]

In our code-base, we have C# definitions like:

public class ProductMetadata : ProductAPI.Contracts.V1.DTOs.ProductMetadata

When running x typescript, this is output as:

export class ProductMetadata extends ProductMetadata

...which of course is invalid. Is there way to force type generation to actually be valid? How do people handle this common scenario?

[matthew-dean]

Btw, where is the source code for the tool that generates this? The ServiceStack repo organization is really confusing, so I wasn't able to find it.

[mythz]

All DTO Type Names need to be unique to use Add ServiceStack Reference so you can't have duplicate type names.

The x and app dotnet tools are in https://github.com/ServiceStack/dotnet-app but all DTO Generation happens inside ServiceStack, e.g. TypeScript generation happens in
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/blob/main/ServiceStack/src/ServiceStack/NativeTypes/TypeScript/TypeScriptGenerator.cs which generates TypeScript DTOs at the /types/typescript endpoint.