I'm trying to cancel my async
method call in Typescript.
To do this, I have created a new Promise type, which inherits from Promise
:
class CancelablePromise<T> extends Promise<T>{
private cancelMethod: () => void;
constructor(executor: (resolve: (value?: T | PromiseLike<T>) => void, reject: (reason?: any) => void) => void, cancelMethod: () => void) {
super(executor);
this.cancelMethod = cancelMethod;
}
//cancel the operation
public cancel() {
if (this.cancelMethod) {
this.cancelMethod();
}
}
}
But when I'm trying to use it:
async postFileAjax<T>(file: File): CancelablePromise<T> { ... }
I get the error:
Error Build:Type 'typeof CancelablePromise' is not a valid async function return type in ES5/ES3 because it does not refer to a Promise-compatible constructor value.
If I using the type declaration and return the CancelablePromise
, like this then it compiles:
async postFileAjax<T>(file: File): Promise<T> {
...
return CancelablePromise(...);
}
What am I doing wrong? I see that in ES6 you could subclass the Promise
(see stackoverflow question), so I would expect it also in TypeScript.
Using Typescript 2.1 and targeting es5