Sorry, I should've phrased it better. There is not 100% fool-proof way to 
determine variable type. In some cases you definitely can, though. I 
suggest you take a look at this 
rule: http://eslint.org/docs/rules/no-implicit-coercion we did a lot of 
that for that rule.

Thanks,

Ilya Volodin

On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 5:23:43 AM UTC-4, Nicolas FROIDURE wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> This is actually possible, per example, the 33 * 2 expression will always 
> result in a number. The same goes for some dynamic expressions like !foo 
> that will always be a boolean whatever foo may contain.
>
> That's what i made in the previously linked file but in a naive way since 
> creating such a lib is out of the scope of my eslint plugin.
>
> What i'd like to find is a robust library to use it instead. Anyway, i'll 
> continue this way until i find something and if not i'll probably create 
> another module to handle that concern. Fell free to help!
>
> Le jeudi 27 août 2015 17:23:28 UTC+2, Ilya Volodin a écrit :
>>
>> I think without using something like Flow or TypeScript, it’s impossible 
>> to determine type of the value for an AST node. Sorry, I’m not aware of 
>> anything that would allow you to do it, and I’m not really sure it’s 
>> possible to do in the first place.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  
>>
>>                                 Ilya Volodin
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On 
>> Behalf Of *Nicolas FROIDURE
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2015 9:28 AM
>> *To:* ESLint <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* [ESLint] Good AST node assertion library?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I'm currently creating an eslint plugin for MongoDB queries/updates 
>> linting and for this work i need to guess the resulting type of a 
>> particular AST node at execution.
>>
>>  
>>
>> By example, knowing if a particular AST node will always return a number, 
>> a date object or a string or if it is impossible to know it for that 
>> particular node.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I started factorizing the code here 
>> https://github.com/nfroidure/eslint-plugin-mongodb/blob/master/src/lib/utils.js#L101
>>  but 
>> i'm sure i'm missing some great library that could do it for me.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Despite my various search i couldn't find it, does some of you know an 
>> existing library allowing to do that kind of things?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
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