Question: Are 'paths' in tsconfig supported?

[heimwege]

Hey guys 👋🏻

I just tried to use the paths defined in my .tsconfig in the wdi5 tests instead of the relative ones. In a TypeScript ui5 project with the transpile middleware that works perfectly fine. Also in the wdi5 test the TS compiler does not complain about the path.

The path documentation states

Note that this feature does not change how import paths are emitted by tsc,
so paths should only be used to inform TypeScript that another tool has this mapping and
will use it at runtime or when bundling.

So guess this is not (yet) supported but I wanted to ask so that it is documented somewhere in case someone else comes up with the same idea 😄

Sample:

.tsconfig:

    "paths": {
      "this/is/my/path/*": ["./webapp/*"]
    },

Foo.test.ts

import bar from "this/is/my/path/test/wdi5/pages/GenericPage";
// import bar from "../pages/GenericPage"; // <-- that one works

Executing the wdi5 tests fails with

Error: Error: Cannot find module 'this/is/my/path/test/wdi5/pages/GenericPage'
Require stack:
...

Runtime Env (please complete the following information):

• wdi5/wdio-ui5-service-version: 2.0.9
• UI5 version: 1.124.0
• wdio-version (output of wdio --version): 8.37.0
• node-version (output of node --version): 18.20.1
• OS: Win11
• Browser + Version: chrome 126.0.6478.57

[dominikfeininger]

it is expected to work like it is used in wdio https://v5.webdriver.io/docs/typescript.html

[heimwege]

Thanks for the information 👍🏻 Then I'll try to create a (not) running sample of the above issue and post it here for following up

[heimwege]

Here you go: running npm run test:ts-app on main works fine, running it on https://github.com/heimwege/wdi5/tree/wdi5-tsconfig-path-issue results in an error for the MultiInput.test.js because of the import using a path as defined in tsconfig.

It's not exactly the same error message that I get in my repo (see above)

Error: Error: Cannot find package 'tsapptest' imported from <local path on my machine>\wdi5\examples\ui5-ts-app\test\e2e\MultiInput.test.ts

but hopefully it is caused by the same issue with the path.

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[heimwege]

So I guess the answer is "no this is currently not supported" 🤷‍♂️