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.toBeCallableWith() does not work with generic functions or overloads #50

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@mrazauskas

If a generic function is declared like this:

export declare function foo <T>(x: T, y: T): T;

The .toBeCallableWith() matcher fails:

expectTypeOf(foo).toBeCallableWith(123, "123"); // no error reported

foo(123, "123");
         ~~~~~ Argument of type '"123"' is not assignable to parameter of type '123'.

Testing an overloaded function:

export declare const foo: {
  (x: string, y: string): string;
  (x: number, y: number): number;
};

Does not work either:

expectTypeOf(foo).toBeCallableWith("abc", "efg");
                                   ~~~~~ Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type 'number'.
expectTypeOf(foo).toBeCallableWith(123, 456);

foo("abc", "efg");  // but all is good here
foo(123, 456);

Hm.. If a simple foo() does the job (and does it better!), what is the purpose of .toBeCallableWith()? I mean, .toEqualTypeOf() works perfectly in both of the cases I mentioned above:

expectTypeOf(foo("abc", "efg")).toEqualTypeOf<string>();
expectTypeOf(foo(123, 456)).toEqualTypeOf<number>();

.not.toBeCallableWith() could handle a check which .toEqualTypeOf() cannot and would be more useful than // @ts-expect-error. Unfortunately it is not implemented at the moment.

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