Super call of non-method disallowed for static field disallowed unnecessarily

[rictic]

Bug Report

🔎 Search Terms

Only public and protected methods of the base class are accessible via the 'super' keyword.

static getter, setter, field, property

🕗 Version & Regression Information

Repro'd in stable, nightly, and TS 3.3.3

• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about super.

⏯ Playground Link

Playground link with relevant code

💻 Code

export {};

class SuperClass {
  static get styles() {
    return ['style'];
  }
}

class ChildClass extends SuperClass {
  static get styles() {
    return [...super.styles, 'additional style'];
  }
}

console.log(ChildClass.styles) // logs [['style'], 'additional style'] as expected

🙁 Actual behavior

When targeting ES5 we get the diagnostic Only public and protected methods of the base class are accessible via the 'super' keyword. on the super.styles.

This is a good diagnostic for the non-static case, because if super.styles was a property rather than an accessor then it probably wouldn't be accessible, as SuperClass.prototype.styles because it would be initialized in the constructor.

However a static field can reasonably be expected to have been initialized, and to be accessible at SuperClass.styles regardless of whether it's a property or an accessor.

🙂 Expected behavior

This should be allowed for static getters, as we have the super class object that we can access (unlike the non-static case, where we can't necessarily get at the original field if it wasn't a getter).

[rictic]

Related to #338, but this issue is only concerned with static fields, where the concerns from that issue do not apply.