i18n instructions create text nodes dynamically and save them between bindings and the expando block in `LView`. e.g., they try to create the following order in `LView`.
```
| -- elements -- | -- bindings -- | -- dynamic i18n text -- | -- expando (dirs, injectors) -- |
```
Each time a new text node is created, it is pushed to the end of the array and the `expandoStartIndex` marker is incremented, so the section begins slightly later. This happens in `allocExpando`.
This is fine if no directives have been created yet. The end of the array will be in the "dynamic text node" section.
| -- elements -- | -- bindings -- | -- dynamic i18n text -- |
However, this approach doesn't work if dynamic text nodes are created after directives are matched (for example when the directive uses host bindings). In that case, there are already directives and injectors saved in the "expando" section. So pushing to the end of `LView` actually pushes after the expando section. What we get is this:
```
| -- elements -- | -- bindings -- | -- dynamic i18n text -- | -- expando -- | -- dynamic i18n text-- |
```
In this case, the `expandoStartIndex` shouldn't be incremented because we are not inserting anything before the expando section (it's now after the expando section). But because it is incremented in the code right now, it's now pointing to an index in the middle of the expando section.
This PR fixes that so that we only increment the `expandoStartIndex` if nothing was pushed into the expando section.
FW-978 #resolve
PR Close#28424
Prior to this change the postprocess step relied on the order of placeholders combined in one group (e.g. [�#1�|�*1:1�]). The order is not guaranteed in case we have nested templates (since we use BFS to process templates) and some tags are represented using same placeholders. This change performs postprocessing more accurate by keeping track of currently active template and searching for matching placeholder.
PR Close#28209
There were two issues with multiple ICU expressions in the same i18n block:
- the regexp that was used to parse the text wasn't able to handle multiple ICU expressions, I've replaced it with parsing the text and searching for brackets (which is what we ended up doing in the end anyway)
- we allocate node indexes for nodes generated by the ICU expressions which increases the expando value, but we would create the nodes for those cases during the update phase. In the mean time we would create some nodes during the creation phase (comment nodes for ICU expressions, text nodes, ...) with an auto increment index. This means that any node created after an ICU expression would get the following index value, but the ICU case nodes expected to use the same index as well... There was a mismatch between the auto generated index, and the expected index which was causing problems when we needed to select those nodes for updates later on. To fix it, I've added the expected node index to the list of mutate codes that we generate, and we do not use an auto increment value anymore.
FW-905 #resolve
PR Close#28083
`i18nAttributes` was throwing an error when it was called multiple times in the create part of the template function with the same index, for example when we create multiple components with the same template. It shouldn't throw in this case, and just use the cache when available.
FW-903 #resolve
PR Close#27911
Prior to this change, ICU extraction logic was not taking into account nested bindings (that look like this: �0:1�) and only accounted for top level bindings (like this �0�). As a result, ICUs were not parsed and remained as text in the output. Now the extraction logic (regular expressions) take into account the nested bindings format as well.
PR Close#27914
Prior to this change, we were unable to match directives using `ng-template` tags (for example the following selector would not work even though there might be some <ng-template>s in a template: `ng-template[directiveA]`. As a result, that broke some components that relies on such selectors to work. In order to resolve the problem, we now pass tag name to the `template` instruction (where we passed `null` before) and this tag name is used for matching at runtime. This update should also help support projecting containers, because the tag name is required to properly match such elements.
PR Close#27636
