I am trying to implement a standard abstract factory pattern in Typescript, but the compiler is not being cooperative. Here is a simplified version of my code:
abstract class Model { }
class User extends Model { }
abstract class ModelFactory<T extends typeof Model> {
constructor(private modelConstructor: T) {}
public create(): T {
return new (this.modelConstructor)(); // ERROR HERE
}
}
class UserFactory extends ModelFactory<typeof User> {
constructor() {
super(User);
}
}
let user: User;
user = new UserFactory().create();
However, when I compile using tsc 2.1, I get the following error at the line indicated above:
model.ts(8,13): error TS2511: Cannot create an instance of the abstract class 'Model'.
If I remove type safety and convert the line to this:
return new (this.modelConstructor as any)();
The code is compiled without errors. However, this is unfortunate. Is there any way to make this code compilable without using a cast? And if not, why not?