NestJS Prisma client unable to import generated types

Question

I am using Prisma with NestJs and after defining my model and running npx prisma generate, I can infer from the types when I import the generated type:

import { FulfilmentReport, FulfilmentReportCreateInput } from "@prisma/client";

Type of FulfilmentReportCreateInput (When hovered):

type FulfilmentReportCreateInput = {
    experimentId: string;
    variantId: string;
    fileName: string;
    reportType: string;
    startDate: string | Date;
    endDate: string | Date;
}

My schema.prisma:

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
}

datasource db {
  provider = "mysql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

model FulfilmentReport {
  jobId        Int      @id @default(autoincrement())
  experimentId String   
  variantId    String
  fileName     String
  reportType   String
  startDate    DateTime
  endDate      DateTime
}

However the issue now is that I have an error prompting that FulfilmentReportCreateInput is not an exported member when I can see it's type?

src/fulfilment-report/fulfilment-report.service.ts:2:28 - error TS2305: Module '"@prisma/client"' has no exported member 'FulfilmentReportCreateInput'.

import { FulfilmentReport, FulfilmentReportCreateInput } from "@prisma/client";

Is this a typescript issue that it is unable to find the generated class? Have been stuck on this for some time now and could use some help

Answer 1

From Prisma documentation:

You can import the Prisma namespace and use dot notation to access types and utilities

So instead of

import { 
  FulfilmentReport, 
  FulfilmentReportCreateInput, 
} from "@prisma/client"

write

import { 
  FulfilmentReport, 
  Prisma,
} from "@prisma/client"

and then use Prisma.FulfilmentReportCreateInput

async createFulfilmentReport(data: Prisma.FulfilmentReportCreateInput): Promise<FulfilmentReport> {
  ...
}