From f73474d02c5aa957b2daeecee65508557fd3c6e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: svihpinc <115612815+svihpinc@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:47:57 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] feat(types): Intellisense for string literals in a widened
 union (#6134)

- see: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/33471#issuecomment-1376364329

Co-authored-by: Jay <jasonsaayman@gmail.com>
---
 index.d.ts | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.d.ts b/index.d.ts
index dc3e809..ff29215 100644
--- a/index.d.ts
+++ b/index.d.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 // TypeScript Version: 4.7
+type StringLiteralsOrString<Literals extends string> = Literals | (string & {});
+
 export type AxiosHeaderValue = AxiosHeaders | string | string[] | number | boolean | null;
 
 interface RawAxiosHeaders {
@@ -302,7 +304,7 @@ export interface AxiosProgressEvent {
 
 type Milliseconds = number;
 
-type AxiosAdapterName = 'fetch' | 'xhr' | 'http' | (string & {});
+type AxiosAdapterName = StringLiteralsOrString<'xhr' | 'http' | 'fetch'>;
 
 type AxiosAdapterConfig = AxiosAdapter | AxiosAdapterName;
 
@@ -317,7 +319,7 @@ export type LookupAddress = string | LookupAddressEntry;
 
 export interface AxiosRequestConfig<D = any> {
   url?: string;
-  method?: Method | string;
+  method?: StringLiteralsOrString<Method>;
   baseURL?: string;
   allowAbsoluteUrls?: boolean;
   transformRequest?: AxiosRequestTransformer | AxiosRequestTransformer[];
@@ -332,7 +334,7 @@ export interface AxiosRequestConfig<D = any> {
   adapter?: AxiosAdapterConfig | AxiosAdapterConfig[];
   auth?: AxiosBasicCredentials;
   responseType?: ResponseType;
-  responseEncoding?: responseEncoding | string;
+  responseEncoding?: StringLiteralsOrString<responseEncoding>;
   xsrfCookieName?: string;
   xsrfHeaderName?: string;
   onUploadProgress?: (progressEvent: AxiosProgressEvent) => void;