Add React.PropTypes.any

[Twisol]

React.PropTypes.any should allow any value to be passed as a prop. Having it as a valid PropType would allow for React.PropTypes.any.isRequired, to enforce that something is passed, whatever it may be. It also supports documenting all possible props for a component: even if a prop may be anything, having it explicitly listed as React.PropType.any is useful documentation.

[syranide]

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Side-question, would it be interesting to be able to specify something like anyOf(['string','object']) too (call it whatever you want), or is too much? I guess the existing implementations of oneOf, etc could be extended to treat string, object, etc as special values and it could be supported that way.

Also, another thing to consider, it's currently quite tedious to write custom validators for inputs as you have to bypass all logic provided by React. Wouldn't it perhaps be reasonable to have something like React.PropTypes.string.restrict(callback) which does the type test for you and you could easily test for say value !== '', it's also more descriptive.

[zpao]

What if we just made React.PropTypes.isRequired work? Adding any in there feels like writing code just to write code. Though it does conform to the same pattern, so nobody would accidentally write isRequired.string. Any thoughts @yungsters?

[sophiebits]

React.PropTypes.isRequired doesn't read properly to me. I'm okay with .any.isRequired.

[zpao]

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