When ngtsc encounters a reference to a type (for example, a Component
type listed in an NgModule declarations array), it traces the import
of that type and attempts to determine the best way to refer to it.
In the event the type is defined in the same file where a reference
is being generated, the identifier of the type is used. If the type
was imported, ngtsc has a choice. It can use the identifier from the
original import, or it can write a new import to the module where the
type came from.
ngtsc has a bug currently when it elects to rely on the user's import.
When writing a .d.ts file, the user's import may have been elided as
the type was not referred to from the type side of the program. Thus,
in .d.ts files ngtsc must always assume the import may not exist, and
generate a new one.
In .js output the import is guaranteed to still exist, so it's
preferable for ngtsc to continue using the existing import if one is
available.
This commit changes how @angular/compiler writes type definitions, and
allows it to use a different expression to write a type definition than
is used to write the value. This allows ngtsc to specify that types in
type definitions should always be imported. A corresponding change to
the staticallyResolve() Reference system allows the choice of which
type of import to use when generating an Expression from a Reference.
PR Close#25080
@ContentChild[ren] and @ViewChild[ren] can contain a forwardRef() to a
type. This commit allows ngtsc to unwrap the forward reference and
deal with the node inside.
It includes two modes of support for forward reference resolution -
a foreign function resolver which understands deeply nested forward
references in expressions that are being statically evaluated, and
an unwrapForwardRef() function which deals only with top-level nodes.
Both will be useful in the future, but for now only unwrapForwardRef()
is used.
PR Close#25080
It specifies --no-sandbox flag when running the protractor tests as
root. This is needed for running the tests inside a docker container.
PR Close#24906
Fixes#25018.
Instantiating a NgModuleRef from NgModuleFactory reuses the NgModuleDefinition if it is already present. However the NgModuleDefinition has a providers array which modified when tree shakable providers are instantiated. This corrupts the provider definitions the next time the same factory is used to create a new NgModuleRef - Two provider definitions can end up with the same index anf the injector could potentially return a completely wrong object for a provider token.
This scenario is more likely on the server where the same NgModuleFactory is reused across requests.
The fix clones the cached NgModuleDefinition so that any tree shakable providers added later do not affect the cached copy.
PR Close#25022
Ivy definition types have a generic type which specifies the return
type of the factory function. For example:
static ngDirectiveDef<NgForOf, '[ngFor][ngForOf]'>
However, in this case NgForOf itself has a type parameter <T>. Thus,
writing the above is incorrect.
This commit modifies ngtsc to understand the genericness of NgForOf and
to write the following:
static ngDirectiveDef<NgForOf<any>, '[ngFor][ngForOf]'>
PR Close#24862
Previously ngtsc would use a tuple of class types for listing metadata
in .d.ts files. For example, an @NgModule's declarations might be
represented with the type:
[NgIf, NgForOf, NgClass]
If the module had no declarations, an empty tuple [] would be produced.
This has two problems.
1. If the class type has generic type parameters, TypeScript will
complain that they're not provided.
2. The empty tuple type is not actually legal.
This commit addresses both problems.
1. Class types are now represented using the `typeof` operator, so the
above declarations would be represented as:
[typeof NgIf, typeof NgForOf, typeof NgClass].
Since typeof operates on a value, it doesn't require generic type
arguments.
2. Instead of an empty tuple, `never` is used to indicate no metadata.
PR Close#24862
Previously, some of the *Def symbols were not exported or were exported
as public API. This commit ensures every definition type is in the
private export namespace.
PR Close#24862
This commit moves the compiler compliance tests into compiler-cli,
and uses ngtsc to run them instead of the custom compilation
pipeline used before. Testing against ngtsc allows for validation
of the real compiler output.
This commit also fixes a few small issues that prevented the tests
from passing.
PR Close#24862
Previously, when translating an assignment expression (e.g. x = 3), the
translator would always print the statement as X = Y. However, if the
expression is included in a larger expression (X = (Y = Z)), the
translator would print "X = Y = Z" without regard for the outer
expression context.
Now, the translator understands when it's printing an expression
statement (X = Y;) vs an expression in a larger context (X = (Y = Z);)
and encapsulates the latter in parentheses.
PR Close#24862
Previously, references had the concept of an identifier, but would not
properly detect whether the identifier should be used or not when
generating an expression. This change fixes that logic.
Additionally, now whenever an identifier resolves to a reference (even
one imported from another module) as part of resolving an expression,
the reference is updated to use that identifier. This ensures that for
a class Foo declared in foo.ts, but referenced in an expression in
bar.ts, the Reference returned includes the identifier from bar.ts,
meaning that writing an expression in bar.ts for the Reference will not
generate an import.
PR Close#24862
Previously ngtsc had a bug where it would only detect the presence of
ngOnChanges as a static method. This commit flips the condition and only
recognizes ngOnChanges as a non-static method.
PR Close#24862
Previously, the static resolver did its own interpretation of statements
in the TypeScript AST, which only functioned on TypeScript code. ES5
code in particular would not work with the resolver as it had hard-coded
assumptions about AST structure.
This commit changes the resolver to use a ReflectionHost instead, which
abstracts away understanding of the structural side of the AST. It adds 3
new methods to the ReflectionHost in support of this functionality:
* getDeclarationOfIdentifier
* getExportsOfModule
* isClass
PR Close#24862
This change adds support for host bindings to ngtsc, and parses them
both from decorators and from the metadata in the top-level annotation.
PR Close#24862
