Serenity-JS/rest: Axios version issue when using an AxiosInstance with latest axios version

[viper3400]

I had to adjust the timeout of my axios instance as mentioned in #1196 described in the second example here

To do so, I run npm install axios which added the latest axios version, at the time of writing this was 0.27.4.

It results in this error:

Argument of type 'import("C:/.../e2e-serenityjs/node_modules/axios/index").AxiosInstance' is not assignable to parameter of type 'import("C:/.../e2e-serenityjs/node_modules/@serenity-js/rest/node_modules/axios/index").AxiosInstance'.
  The types of 'defaults.method' are incompatible between these types.
    Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'Method'.ts(2345)

@serenity-js/rest still uses an axios version 0.21.4

I downgraded the axios package in my project to this version - and it was working again.

I did no further analysis so far, so I'm not sure if this is just because of the general version mismatch or if breaking changes where introduced in axios meanwhile.

[jan-molak]

Hey @viper3400, @serenity-js/rest is purposefully depending on an older version of Axios, since the newer ones have this issue - axios/axios#4124

A fix to that has been merged to Axios master, but it looks like it's never been released - axios/axios#4229

Interestingly enough, based on axios/axios#4304 (comment), I see that @alecgibson has updated @types/node to introduce AbortController and AbortSignal - DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#58270, so we might be able to upgrade our dependency on Axios even without axios/axios#4229

[jan-molak]

Released in 3.0.0-rc.19