How can I make an empty string array in Typescript?

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I would like to have an array that holds string error messages. Here's the code that I came up with:

var errors: [string];
errors = [];
Object.keys(response.data.modelState).forEach(function (key) {
    errors.push.apply(errors, response.data.modelState[key]);
});

I tried some different ways to add a typescript definition to the variable errors but none seem to work for this case. The first definition works okay but then when I am pushing values I need to push to an array and when I set:

errors = [];

Then it gives me an error message:

Severity Code Description Project File Line Error TS2322 Type 'undefined[]' is not assignable to type '[string]'. Property '0' is missing in type 'undefined[]'. Severity Code Description Project File Line Error Build: Type 'undefined[]' is not assignable to type '[string]'.

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Radim Köhler · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-23 11:31:07Z

42

The definition of string array should be:

// instead of this
// var errors: [string];
// we need this
var errors: string[];
errors = [];

Note: another issue could be the parameter key here

...forEach(function (key) {...

I would guess that we often should declare two of them, because first is very often value, second key/index

Object.keys(response.data.modelState)
      .forEach(function (value, key) {
    errors.push.apply(errors, response.data.modelState[key]);
});

And even, we should use arrow function, to get the parent as this

Object.keys(response.data.modelState)
      .forEach( (value, key) => {
    errors.push.apply(errors, response.data.modelState[key]);
});

answered Sep 23, 2015 at 11:31

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wvdz · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-26 10:13:20Z

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Missing an obvious answer, needed when not assigning it to a variable: [] as string[]

answered May 26, 2020 at 10:13

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Gero · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-12 16:58:16Z

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Outside of a method:

arr: string[] = [];

answered Jun 12, 2018 at 16:58

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Anders Zommarin · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-24 11:32:06Z

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An alternative is to set the length to 0:

const myArray = [1, 2, 3, 4]
myArray.length = 0

This makes it possible to use const in contexts where emptying the array is needed.

answered Oct 24, 2019 at 11:32

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