Tom RedmanT
Convex Community•5mo ago•
3 replies
Tom Redman

Action calling an action: "implicit any" error?

Hey all, @erquhart I feel like you'll know this, haha.

I have the simplest action calling another action via ctx.runAction. It's throwing the classic "implicitly has type 'any' because..." error, but I'd really like to understand why.

(For the record, I have "solved" this by using a helper function, per best practice, instead of an action calling an action. Regardless, I need to understand why this isn't working.)

- I can also annotate it with as { message: ... }, but why would I need to do that when the return type is static and very simple?

- Adding returns argument doesn't solve it either E.g.
returns: v.object({
  message: v.string(),
}),

// and 

returns: v.object({
  simpleAction: v.object({
    message: v.string(),
  }),
}),


Here's the whole setup:

import { action, internalAction } from "../_generated/server";
import { api } from "../_generated/api";

export const simpleAction = internalAction({
  args: {},
  handler: async (ctx, args) => {
    return {
      message: `Hello Test`,
    };
  },
});

export const simpleActionTest = action({
  args: {},
  handler: async (ctx, args) => {
    const _simpleAction = await ctx.runAction(
      api.authBridge.simpleAction.simpleAction,
      {}
    );
    return {
      simpleAction: _simpleAction,
    };
  },
});


Error in Terminal (note VS Code doesn't show any issues):

convex/authBridge/simpleAction.ts:16:11 - error TS7022: '_simpleAction' implicitly has type 'any' because it does not have a type annotation and is referenced directly or indirectly in its own initializer.

16     const _simpleAction = await ctx.runAction(
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Found 3 errors in the same file, starting at: convex/authBridge/simpleAction.ts:13
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