Definition Files are interpreted as relative "paths"

[georgeedwards]

TypeScript Version: 2.0.10
Code

declare module com {
    export module google {
        export module android {
            export module gms {
                export module auth {
                    export class GoogleAuthUtil {
                        public static getToken(param0: android.content.Context, param1: string, param2: string): string;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
declare module android {
    declare module content {
        export class Context {
        }
    }
}

Expected behavior:
For tsc to interpret android.content.Context as an absolute path and as such look to the declare module android and find the exported class Context.

Actual behavior:
tsc interprets android.content.Context as a relative path, looks in the namespace com.google.android rather than android., can't find content.Context and throws an error.

[mhegazy]

Please see relevant discussion in #983

There is no way to fully qualify a namespace from the global scope. The recommendation is to use aliasing to capture shadowed namespaces, i.e:

declare module com {
    import globalAndroid = android;
    export module google {
        export module android {
            export module gms {
                export module auth {
                    export class GoogleAuthUtil {
                        public static getToken(param0: globalAndroid.content.Context, param1: string, param2: string): string;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
declare module android {
    module content {
        export class Context {
        }
    }
}