Converter for "this" type (#383)

src/lib/converter/types/index.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export {EnumConverter} from './enum';
 export {IntrinsicConverter} from './intrinsic'
 export {StringLiteralConverter} from './string-literal';
 export {ReferenceConverter} from './reference';
+export {ThisConverter} from './this';
 export {TupleConverter} from './tuple';
 export {TypeParameterConverter} from './type-parameter';
 export {UnionConverter} from './union';

src/lib/converter/types/this.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import * as ts from 'typescript';
+
+import { Type, IntrinsicType } from '../../models/types/index';
+import { Component, ConverterTypeComponent, TypeNodeConverter } from '../components';
+import { Context } from '../context';
+
+@Component({ name: 'type:this' })
+export class ThisConverter extends ConverterTypeComponent implements TypeNodeConverter<ts.Type, ts.ThisTypeNode> {
+    /**
+     * Test whether this converter can handle the given TypeScript node.
+     */
+    public supportsNode(context: Context, node: ts.ThisTypeNode, type: ts.Type): boolean {
+        return node.kind === ts.SyntaxKind.ThisType;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Convert the type reference node to its type reflection.
+     *
+     * This is a node based converter, see [[convertTypeReferenceType]] for the type equivalent.
+     *
+     * ```
+     * class SomeClass { }
+     * var someValue:SomeClass;
+     * ```
+     *
+     * @param context  The context object describing the current state the converter is in.
+     * @param node  The type reference node that should be converted.
+     * @param type  The type of the type reference node.
+     * @returns The type reflection representing the given reference node.
+     */
+    public convertNode(context: Context, node: ts.ThisTypeNode, type: ts.Type): Type {
+        return new IntrinsicType('this');
+    }
+}

src/test/converter/this/specs.json

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+{
+  "id": 0,
+  "name": "typedoc",
+  "kind": 0,
+  "flags": {},
+  "children": [
+    {
+      "id": 1,
+      "name": "\"this\"",
+      "kind": 1,
+      "kindString": "External module",
+      "flags": {
+        "isExported": true
+      },
+      "originalName": "%BASE%/this/this.ts",
+      "children": [
+        {
+          "id": 2,
+          "name": "ChainClass",
+          "kind": 128,
+          "kindString": "Class",
+          "flags": {
+            "isExported": true
+          },
+          "comment": {
+            "shortText": "ChainClass comment short text.",
+            "text": "ChainClass comment text.\n"
+          },
+          "children": [
+            {
+              "id": 3,
+              "name": "chain",
+              "kind": 2048,
+              "kindString": "Method",
+              "flags": {
+                "isExported": true,
+                "isPublic": true
+              },
+              "signatures": [
+                {
+                  "id": 4,
+                  "name": "chain",
+                  "kind": 4096,
+                  "kindString": "Call signature",
+                  "flags": {},
+                  "comment": {
+                    "shortText": "Chain method that returns this."
+                  },
+                  "type": {
+                    "type": "instrinct",
+                    "name": "this"
+                  }
+                }
+              ],
+              "sources": [
+                {
+                  "fileName": "this.ts",
+                  "line": 11,
+                  "character": 13
+                }
+              ]
+            }
+          ],
+          "groups": [
+            {
+              "title": "Methods",
+              "kind": 2048,
+              "children": [
+                3
+              ]
+            }
+          ],
+          "sources": [
+            {
+              "fileName": "this.ts",
+              "line": 6,
+              "character": 23
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
+      "groups": [
+        {
+          "title": "Classes",
+          "kind": 128,
+          "children": [
+            2
+          ]
+        }
+      ],
+      "sources": [
+        {
+          "fileName": "this.ts",
+          "line": 1,
+          "character": 0
+        }
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "groups": [
+    {
+      "title": "External modules",
+      "kind": 1,
+      "children": [
+        1
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

src/test/converter/this/this.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/**
+ * ChainClass comment short text.
+ *
+ * ChainClass comment text.
+ */
+export class ChainClass
+{
+	/**
+	 * Chain method that returns this.
+	 */
+	public chain(): this
+	{
+		return this;
+	}
+}