[Bug]: ElectronApplication.evaluate type is wrong about playwright HOT 8 CLOSED

Also, while the class constructors have keys, they are all undefined

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This sounds expected, you can access ipcRenderer in the renderer process (BrowserWindow's) of your Electron application. Usually you are using sandboxing, so its only available inside the preload.

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The type is intended to not match runtime behaviour?

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electronApp.evaluate will run in the Electron main process which is different to the render process. So from my side this seems all working as intended and the type is matching. Could you elaborate more on that?

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The issue is not that ipcRenderer is not available. The issue is that the type does not reflect the structure of the value at runtime. As illustrated in the image in the original post. It's a diff of the keys specified by the type and the actual keys in the object. Plus the value for all of the PascalCase keys is undefined, also contradicting the type.

The issue is not that ipcRenderer is not on the object. The issue is that the type says it is.

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contextBridge, ipcRenderer, webFrame, webUtils sounds expected to me that they are missing, according to the Electron docs these properties are only available in the Electron renderer process: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/ipc-renderer.

For the PascalCase style attributes, this looks wrong to me, since even their official don't work with the latest Electron:

// @ts-check
// As per https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/docs/api/web-contents-view.md#webcontentsview
const { BaseWindow, WebContentsView } = require('electron')
// As per https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/docs/api/view.md
const { BaseWindow, View } = require('electron')
const win = new BaseWindow()
const view = new View()

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As by talking to folks on Electron side (thanks @codebytere), BaseWindow and WebContentsView are classes which were already exposed in Electron v29 but were not officially released yet. As part of Electron v30, they are in their public API -> types and by that exposed.

Closing by that since there is no action item on our side.

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I don't understand how any of this justifies the fact the types do not reflect runtime values.

If ipcRenderer is never attached to this object, why does the type say it always is?
Why are there 9 keys that the type says are class constructors but in reality are nothing?

Also, I need the Menu constructor so I can test my app. Is there any way of getting it?

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