Incorrect type in google.maps.GeocoderResult

[nbouvrette]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to fill this issue since I could not open issues on https://github.com/googlemaps/DefinitelyTyped

I was looking for a simple type for the Geocode API. Right now the API's type would look something like this:

type GoogleGeocodeApiResponse = {
  results: {
    address_components: {
      long_name: string
      short_name: string
      types: string[]
    }[]
    formatted_address: string
    geometry: {
      bounds: Record<string, { lat: number; lng: number }>
      location: { lat: number; lng: number }
      location_type: string
      viewport: Record<string, { lat: number; lng: number }>
    }
    place_id: string
    types: string[]
  }[]
  status: string

The closest thing I found to this type in https://github.com/googlemaps/DefinitelyTyped would be google.maps.GeocoderResult.

For the most part, the type looks good, until you start digging into the nested properties. I didn't check the entire type but I noticed that if you follow the type to: google.maps.GeocoderResult.geometry.location instead of returning lat and lng as number it returns them as function which would not work for a simple use case where you would like to parse an API's response.

If that type is not meant to be used like this, then I guess there are no types for API responses which is also not convenient if you want to integrate directly with the APIs using types.

[wangela]

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