defaultValue: "..."?

[kraftwer1]

I'm using the JSON feature of TypeDoc.
After upgrading from 0.19.1 to 0.20.33, there are many "..." in the generated JSON.

For example, when running TypeDoc on this code...

/**
 * Test
 */
public data: string[] = []

...I'm getting this:

{
  "name": "data",
  "defaultValue": "...",
  ...
}

Expected Behavior

In 0.19.1, it used to be correct:

{
  "name": "data",
  "defaultValue": "[]",
  ...
}

EDIT

The "defaultValue: "..." also appears in following situations:

public foo: () => void = () => ""

public foo: number = this.bar
// this.bar is another public property of the class (with default of 1).
// TypeDoc 0.19.1 wrote "this.bar" as a hardcoded string, but 1 as number is correct IMHO.

Environment

• Typedoc version: 0.20.33
• TypeScript version: 4.0.2
• Node.js version: 14.11.0
• OS: macOS Catalina

[Gerrit0]

This is expected behavior - TypeDoc will only display initializers if it deems them simple enough to not cause catastrophically bad behavior. See #1288 for an example. Also see #1393 for an example plugin which overrides this behavior for object literals, and can be easily extended for other initializer types.

[kraftwer1]

Okay... maybe one day an empty array [] or an empty object {} will be simple enough to "not cause catastrophically bad behavior". For now I'll gonna have to explain to my readers what "..." is.

Anyways, I appreciate your outstanding work. thanks!