[@types/oojs-ui] Missing some jQuery properties

[jwbth]

This is rather an issue of the OOUI documentation, but these props are still desirable to have.

This is the list of jQuery properties available in a class extending OO.ui.ProcessDialog:

As you can see, $body, among others, in not in the list. this.$body is used in the example code in the docs for OO.ui.ProcessDialog, as well as the docs for OO.ui.Dialog. But it is not in the auto-generated property list of the docs.

The properties themselves are defined in OO.ui.Window.prototype.initialize, see the code.

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[diskdance]

This is intentionally hidden because interface can only define public members. Allowing these will require to written the package in class, which I didn't choose because of OOUI's LSP violation issue and its ES5 style.

[jwbth]

That's OK, but then my request will be to use interfaces, not types, so that they could be extended instead of patching the definitions. In this particular case, I added $body to OO.ui.Window, because OO.ui.Window.Props is an interface. But that won't work with cases when a type is used. E.g. I currently use a patched version of ProcessDialog.d.ts where I do this: