crashes when upgrading from 0.26.11 to 0.27.0 or 0.27.1

[pamapa]

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Expected Behavior

Should not crash.

Actual Behavior

Crashes.

Steps to reproduce the bug

You can see the behavior in this pull request: authts/oidc-client-ts#1757
Error:

Run npm run typedoc
  npm run typedoc
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}

> [email protected] typedoc
> typedoc

TypeDoc exiting with unexpected error:
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'TypeParameter')
    at ReferenceType.createSymbolReference (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/models/types.js:782:70)
    at Object.convert (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/types.js:190:35)
    at convertType (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/types.js:80:38)
    at Converter.convertType (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/converter.js:330:20)
    at file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/symbols.js:333:117
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at Object.convertClassOrInterface (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/symbols.js:333:88)
    at convertSymbol (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/symbols.js:122:41)
    at Object.convertAlias (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/symbols.js:494:9)
    at convertSymbol (file:///home/runner/work/oidc-client-ts/oidc-client-ts/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/converter/symbols.js:122:41)
Error: Process completed with exit code 6.

Environment

• Typedoc version: 0.27.1
• TypeScript version: 5.4.2
• Node.js version: 18.x
• OS: Linux

[willeastcott]

This is happening for the PlayCanvas API reference too after the same upgrade.

[Gerrit0]

This appears to be because of the older TS version - I really need to get some automation in place to properly test with older TS versions...

[Gerrit0]

Annoyingly small patch with patch-package to make it work... will make a release with this later today.

diff --git a/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/models/types.js b/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/models/types.js
index 15ce050..136db9e 100644
--- a/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/models/types.js
+++ b/node_modules/typedoc/dist/lib/models/types.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import * as ts from "typescript";
+import ts from "typescript";
 import { getQualifiedName } from "../utils/tsutils.js";
 import { ReflectionSymbolId } from "./reflections/ReflectionSymbolId.js";
 import { findPackageForPath } from "../utils/fs.js";