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Discussion on: TypeScript 'instanceof' interface is it possible?

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Костя Третяк •

Try this:

const enum Permission {
  canRead = 1,
  canWrite = 2
}

class User {
  constructor(public permissions: Permission[] = []) {}
}

function guardAccess(user: User) {
  if (!user.permissions.includes(Permission.canWrite)) {
    throw new AccessDeniedException();
  }
}
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Andrei Kniazev •

This article is not about specific domain but about how to check interface at runtime.

And proposed solution works if you don’t need polymorphism.
For example you have role reader that can only read and role writer with claims for what it can write.