`@import * as namespace` cannot be used with `@implements`

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🔎 Search Terms

• cannot be used as a value because it was imported using 'import type'
• implements

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• I was unable to test this on prior versions (to v4.1.5) because every-ts failed to build them.

⏯ Playground Link

https://www.typescriptlang.org/dev/bug-workbench/?checkJs=true&allowJs=true&moduleResolution=3&target=9&module=100&ts=5.6.3#code/PTAEAEEMBtoewO4CkDOAoEEDGALAplgNapoZjgBmAltHgHaQC2eAXKA8ygA6RZ4B0AF3R4AHlzgAnQaCp1BeSRV55QAMThxIAI1qgA3mlCgKmgBQBKNgDc4VACYBuNAF9SZCNVodWoYQFoqRglpIXQgkJlBAE8uVQAqUEgUUAA5AGUTSThGUAAifmAfbhU85zQxSNAsaGSUgBUcOQBzRshBAGFIOg04WWDaZnkUjP5enT19N1JMShp6Jl8AKxRA4KlBfhWMePijRPAIjdBE5LTMimzcgHJC4p4+a-3gGd2ICMH6YQNR8d08FwnF6VY41OqgRotNqdbq9AxuIA

💻 Code

// @allowJs
// @checkJs

// @filename: namespace.ts
export interface Fooable {
  foo(): void;
}

// @filename: ts-import.ts
import type * as NS from "./namespace";

export class ThingThatCanFoo implements NS.Fooable {}

// @filename: js-import.js
/**
 * @import * as NS from './namespace'
 */

/** @implements {NS.Fooable} */
export class ThingThatCanFoo {}

🙁 Actual behavior

• /** @implements {NS.Fooable} */ has error: 'NS' cannot be used as a value because it was imported using 'import type'.
• Both versions of ThingThatCanFoo correctly report that they do not fully implement Fooable.

🙂 Expected behavior

• /** @implements {NS.Fooable} */ should not have an error, exactly like implements NS.Fooable above.
• Both versions of ThingThatCanFoo should still report that they do not fully implement Fooable.

Additional information about the issue

Notably, in the JSDoc version, using a non-type import removes the error:

import * as NS from "./namespace";

However, this causes a runtime import that's only used for type information.

Related issues

• https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/36428 (The same issue using import type in TS instead of @import in JSDoc)