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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition
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Learning TypeScript 2.x - Second Edition

by Remo H. Jansen
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
536 pages
13h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Specialized overloading signature

We can use a specialized signature to create multiple methods with the same name and number of parameters, but a different return type. To create a specialized signature, we must indicate the type of function parameter using a string. The string literal is used to identify which of the function overloads is invoked:

interface Document { 
    createElement(tagName: "div"): HTMLDivElement; // specialized 
    createElement(tagName: "span"): HTMLSpanElement; // specialized 
    createElement(tagName: "canvas"): HTMLCanvasElement; // specialized 
    createElement(tagName: string): HTMLElement; // non-specialized 
} 

In the preceding example, we have declared three specialized overloaded signatures and one nonspecialized signature ...

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