Do Partials Create Un-Typesafe Code?

[edgy temple]

If I am listening for say a message update event with partials of messages and I receive a partial message in that event with only the ID and no other information, is it possible for me to access a value that doesn’t exist on the object sent to the event listener?

My assumption would be there’s a Message type and a PartialMessage type and the onMessageUpdate() event listener would give a PartialMessage | Message and you’d use the .partial property to determine the state of it

From the docs though it only sends a message object which could be partially constructed, resulting in accessing a property that’s null - creating a runtime error that could have been caught with types?

[tawdry hill]

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[edgy temple]

Doesn’t matter too much but relevant code if it helps https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow/blob/Discord-Event-Parity/apps/discord-bot/src/listeners/parity/message-parity.ts

[gusty onyx]

Short answer: yes.

But sometimes partials are a must have and so we need to work around it in runtime.