Better types for useRedirect and useCreatePath

packages/ra-core/src/routing/useCreatePath.spec.tsx

@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@
 import * as React from 'react';
 import { render, screen } from '@testing-library/react';
 
-import { useCreatePath } from './useCreatePath';
+import { CreatePathType, useCreatePath } from './useCreatePath';
 import { AtRoot, SubPath } from './useCreatePath.stories';
+import { Identifier } from '../types';
 
 describe('useCreatePath', () => {
     beforeEach(() => {
         window.history.replaceState({}, '', '/');
     });
 
-    const UseCreatePath = ({ resource, type, id }: any) => {
+    const UseCreatePath = ({
+        resource,
+        type,
+        id,
+    }: {
+        resource: string;
+        type: CreatePathType;
+        id?: Identifier;
+    }) => {
         const createPath = useCreatePath();
         const path = createPath({ resource, type, id });
         return <div>{path}</div>;

packages/ra-core/src/routing/useCreatePath.ts

@@ -76,8 +76,11 @@ export const useCreatePath = () => {
     );
 };
 
+type AnyString = string & {};
+export type CreatePathType = 'list' | 'edit' | 'show' | 'create' | AnyString;
+
 export interface CreatePathParams {
-    type: string;
+    type: CreatePathType;
     resource: string;
     id?: Identifier;
 }

packages/ra-core/src/routing/useRedirect.spec.tsx

@@ -6,15 +6,22 @@ import { Routes, Route, useLocation } from 'react-router-dom';
 import { createMemoryHistory } from 'history';
 
 import { CoreAdminContext } from '../core';
-import { useRedirect } from './useRedirect';
+import { RedirectionSideEffect, useRedirect } from './useRedirect';
 import { testDataProvider } from '../dataProvider';
+import { Identifier, RaRecord } from '../types';
 
 const Redirect = ({
     redirectTo,
     resource = '',
-    id = null,
-    data = null,
-    state = null,
+    id = undefined,
+    data = undefined,
+    state = undefined,
+}: {
+    redirectTo: RedirectionSideEffect;
+    resource?: string;
+    id?: Identifier;
+    data?: Partial<RaRecord>;
+    state?: object;
 }) => {
     const redirect = useRedirect();
     useEffect(() => {
@@ -89,6 +96,7 @@ describe('useRedirect', () => {
 
     it('should support absolute URLs', () => {
         const oldLocation = window.location;
+        // @ts-ignore
         delete window.location;
         // @ts-ignore
         window.location = { href: '' };

packages/ra-core/src/routing/useRedirect.ts

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { parsePath } from 'history';
 
 import { Identifier, RaRecord } from '../types';
 import { useBasename } from './useBasename';
-import { useCreatePath } from './useCreatePath';
+import { CreatePathType, useCreatePath } from './useCreatePath';
 
 type RedirectToFunction = (
     resource?: string,
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ type RedirectToFunction = (
     state?: object
 ) => To;
 
-export type RedirectionSideEffect = string | false | RedirectToFunction;
+export type RedirectionSideEffect = CreatePathType | false | RedirectToFunction;
 
 /**
  * Hook for Redirection Side Effect