Typed methods in TypeScript

Question

How do I define the type of a class method in TypeScript? For a regular function, I would do

interface Listener { (foo: string, bar: any): void; }

// foo and bar will be typed according to the Listener interface
let listener: Listener = function(foo, bar) { };

Is it possible to declare a method with the Listener interface?

class Foo {

  // will warn about implicit 'any' types
  listener1(foo, bar) { }

  // I want to avoid this
  listener2(foo: string, bar: any): void { }
}

This would make it easier for me to override the method in subclasses, knowing that the methods need to conform to the Listener interface.

Answer 1

If you want to make sure that only objects are passed into for example a function that "have" a listener function you can also use an interface.

 interface IListener{
     listener(type: string, payload: any):void
 }

 function somethingElse( l:IListener ){
     l.listener( "hello", "heavy payload" );
 }

Hope this helps.