Previously, when the NgModule scope resolver discovered semantic errors
within a users NgModules, it would throw assertion errors. TODOs in the
codebase indicated these should become ts.Diagnostics eventually.
Besides producing better-looking errors, there is another reason to make
this change asap: these assertions were shadowing actual errors, via an
interesting mechanism:
1) a component would produce a ts.Diagnostic during its analyze() step
2) as a result, it wouldn't register component metadata with the scope
resolver
3) the NgModule for the component references it in exports, which was
detected as an invalid export (no metadata registering it as a
component).
4) the resulting assertion error would crash the compiler, hiding the
real cause of the problem (an invalid component).
This commit should mitigate this problem by converting scoping errors to
proper ts.Diagnostics. Additionally, we should consider registering some
marker indicating a class is a directive/component/pipe without actually
requiring full metadata to be produced for it, which would allow suppression
of errors like "invalid export" for such invalid types.
PR Close#29191
This commit adds tracking of modules, directives, and pipes which are made
visible to consumers through NgModules exported from the package entrypoint.
ngtsc will now produce a diagnostic if such classes are not themselves
exported via the entrypoint (as this is a requirement for downstream
consumers to use them with Ivy).
To accomplish this, a graph of references is created and populated via the
ReferencesRegistry. Symbols exported via the package entrypoint are compared
against the graph to determine if any publicly visible symbols are not
properly exported. Diagnostics are produced for each one which also show the
path by which they become visible.
This commit also introduces a diagnostic (instead of a hard compiler crash)
if an entrypoint file cannot be correctly determined.
PR Close#27743
This commit takes the first steps towards ngtsc producing real
TypeScript diagnostics instead of simply throwing errors when
encountering incorrect code.
A new class is introduced, FatalDiagnosticError, which can be thrown by
handlers whenever a condition in the code is encountered which by
necessity prevents the class from being compiled. This error type is
convertable to a ts.Diagnostic which represents the type and source of
the error.
Error codes are introduced for Angular errors, and are prefixed with -99
(so error code 1001 becomes -991001) to distinguish them from other TS
errors.
A function is provided which will read TS diagnostic output and convert
the TS errors to NG errors if they match this negative error code
format.
PR Close#25647
