Checks that types in jsdoc comments are defined. This can be used to check unimported types.
When enabling this rule, types in jsdoc comments will resolve as used
variables, i.e. will not be marked as unused by no-unused-vars.
In addition to considering globals found in code (or in ESLint-indicated
globals) as defined, the following tags will also be checked for
name(path) definitions to also serve as a potential "type" for checking
the tag types in the table below:
@callback, @class (or @constructor), @constant (or @const),
@event, @external (or @host), @function (or @func or @method),
@interface, @member (or @var), @mixin, @name, @namespace,
@template (for "closure" or "typescript" settings.jsdoc.mode only),
@typedef.
The following tags will also be checked but only when the mode is closure:
@package, @private, @protected, @public, @static
The following types are always considered defined.
null,undefined,void,string,boolean,object,function,symbolnumber,bigint,NaN,Infinityany,*Array,Object,RegExp,Date,Function
Note that preferred types indicated within settings.jsdoc.preferredTypes will
also be assumed to be defined.
Also note that if there is an error parsing
types for a tag, the function will silently ignore that tag, leaving it to
the valid-types rule to report parsing errors.
If you define your own tags, you can use settings.jsdoc.structuredTags
to indicate that a tag's name is "namepath-defining" (and should prevent
reporting on use of that namepath elsewhere) and/or that a tag's type is
false (and should not be checked for types).
An option object may have the following key:
definedTypes- This array can be populated to indicate other types which are automatically considered as defined (in addition to globals, etc.). Defaults to an empty array.
| Context | everywhere |
| Tags | augments, class, constant, enum, implements, member, module, namespace, param, property, returns, throws, type, typedef, yields |
| Aliases | constructor, const, extends, var, arg, argument, prop, return, exception, yield |
| Closure-only | package, private, protected, public, static |
| Options | definedTypes |
| Settings | preferredTypes, mode, structuredTags |