This fix is for a bug in the ngtsc PartialEvaluator, which statically
evaluates expressions.
Sometimes, evaluating a reference requires resolving a function which is
declared in another module, and thus no function body is available. To
support this case, the PartialEvaluator has the concept of a foreign
function resolver.
This allows the interpretation of expressions like:
const router = RouterModule.forRoot([]);
even though the definition of the 'forRoot' function has no body. In
ngtsc today, this will be resolved to a Reference to RouterModule itself,
via the ModuleWithProviders foreign function resolver.
However, the PartialEvaluator also associates any Identifiers in the path
of this resolution with the Reference. This is done so that if the user
writes
const x = imported.y;
'x' can be generated as a local identifier instead of adding an import for
'y'.
This was at the heart of a bug. In the above case with 'router', the
PartialEvaluator added the identifier 'router' to the Reference generated
(through FFR) to RouterModule.
This is not correct. References that result from FFR expressions may not
have the same value at runtime as they do at compile time (indeed, this is
not the case for ModuleWithProviders). The Reference generated via FFR is
"synthetic" in the sense that it's constructed based on a useful
interpretation of the code, not an accurate representation of the runtime
value. Therefore, it may not be legal to refer to the Reference via the
'router' identifier.
This commit adds the ability to mark such a Reference as 'synthetic', which
allows the PartialEvaluator to not add the 'router' identifier down the
line. Tests are included for both the PartialEvaluator itself as well as the
resultant buggy behavior in ngtsc overall.
PR Close#29387
The ngtsc partial evaluator previously would not handle an enum reference
inside a template string expression correctly. Enums are resolved to an
`EnumValue` type, which has a `resolved` property with the actual value.
When effectively toString-ing a `ResolvedValue` as part of visiting a
template expression, the partial evaluator needs to translate `EnumValue`s
to their fully resolved value, which this commit does.
PR Close#29062
DynamicValues are generated whenever a partially evaluated expression is
unable to be resolved statically. They contain a reference to the ts.Node
which wasn't resolvable.
They can also be nested. For example, the expression 'a + b' is resolvable
only if 'a' and 'b' are themselves resolvable. If either 'a' or 'b' resolve
to a DynamicValue, the whole expression must also resolve to a DynamicValue.
Previously, if 'a' resolved to a DynamicValue, the entire expression might
have been resolved to the same DynamicValue. This correctly indicated that
the expression wasn't resolvable, but didn't return a reference to the
shallow node that couldn't be resolved (the expression 'a + b'), only a
reference to the deep node that couldn't be resolved ('a').
In certain situations, it's very useful to know the shallow unresolvable
node (for example, to use it verbatim in the output). To support this,
the partial evaluator is updated to always wrap DynamicValue to point to
each unresolvable expression as it's processed, ensuring the receiver can
determine exactly which expression node failed to resolve.
PR Close#29033
The partial evaluator in ngtsc can handle a shorthand property declaration
in the middle evaluation, but fails if evaluation starts at the shorthand
property itself. This is because evaluation starts at the ts.Identifier
of the property (the ts.Expression representing it), not the ts.Declaration
for the property.
The fix for this is to detect in TypeScriptReflectionHost when a ts.Symbol
refers to a shorthand property, and to use the ts.TypeChecker method
getShorthandAssignmentValueSymbol() to resolve the value of the assignment
instead.
FW-1089 #resolve
PR Close#28936
The ultimate goal of this commit is to make use of fileNameToModuleName to
get the module specifier to use when generating an import, when that API is
available in the CompilerHost that ngtsc is created with.
As part of getting there, the way in which ngtsc tracks references and
generates import module specifiers is refactored considerably. References
are tracked with the Reference class, and previously ngtsc had several
different kinds of Reference. An AbsoluteReference represented a declaration
which needed to be imported via an absolute module specifier tracked in the
AbsoluteReference, and a RelativeReference represented a declaration from
the local program, imported via relative path or referred to directly by
identifier if possible. Thus, how to refer to a particular declaration was
encoded into the Reference type _at the time of creation of the Reference_.
This commit refactors that logic and reduces Reference to a single class
with no subclasses. A Reference represents a node being referenced, plus
context about how the node was located. This context includes a
"bestGuessOwningModule", the compiler's best guess at which absolute
module specifier has defined this reference. For example, if the compiler
arrives at the declaration of CommonModule via an import to @angular/common,
then any references obtained from CommonModule (e.g. NgIf) will also be
considered to be owned by @angular/common.
A ReferenceEmitter class and accompanying ReferenceEmitStrategy interface
are introduced. To produce an Expression referring to a given Reference'd
node, the ReferenceEmitter consults a sequence of ReferenceEmitStrategy
implementations.
Several different strategies are defined:
- LocalIdentifierStrategy: use local ts.Identifiers if available.
- AbsoluteModuleStrategy: if the Reference has a bestGuessOwningModule,
import the node via an absolute import from that module specifier.
- LogicalProjectStrategy: if the Reference is in the logical project
(is under the project rootDirs), import the node via a relative import.
- FileToModuleStrategy: use a FileToModuleHost to generate the module
specifier by which to import the node.
Depending on the availability of fileNameToModuleName in the CompilerHost,
then, a different collection of these strategies is used for compilation.
PR Close#28523
Previously, ngtsc would assume that a given directive/pipe being imported
from an external package was importable using the same name by which it
was declared. This isn't always true; sometimes a package will export a
directive under a different name. For example, Angular frequently prefixes
directive names with the 'ɵ' character to indicate that they're part of
the package's private API, and not for public consumption.
This commit introduces the TsReferenceResolver class which, given a
declaration to import and a module name to import it from, can determine
the exported name of the declared class within the module. This allows
ngtsc to pick the correct name by which to import the class instead of
making assumptions about how it was exported.
This resolver is used to select a correct symbol name when creating an
AbsoluteReference.
FW-517 #resolve
FW-536 #resolve
PR Close#27743
Upcoming work to implement import resolution will change the dependencies
of some higher-level classes in ngtsc & ngcc. This necessitates changes in
how these classes are created and the lifecycle of the ts.Program in ngtsc
& ngcc.
To avoid complicating the implementation work with refactoring as a result
of the new dependencies, the refactoring is performed in this commit as a
separate prepatory step.
In ngtsc, the testing harness is modified to allow easier access to some
aspects of the ts.Program.
In ngcc, the main change is that the DecorationAnalyzer is created with the
ts.Program as a constructor parameter. This is not a lifecycle change, as
it was previously created with the ts.TypeChecker which is derived from the
ts.Program anyways. This change requires some reorganization in ngcc to
accommodate, especially in testing harnesses where DecorationAnalyzer is
created manually in a number of specs.
PR Close#27743
This refactoring moves code around between a few of the ngtsc subpackages,
with the goal of having a more logical package structure. Additional
interfaces are also introduced where they make sense.
The 'metadata' package formerly contained both the partial evaluator,
the TypeScriptReflectionHost as well as some other reflection functions,
and the Reference interface and various implementations. This package
was split into 3 parts.
The partial evaluator now has its own package 'partial_evaluator', and
exists behind an interface PartialEvaluator instead of a top-level
function. In the future this will be useful for reducing churn as the
partial evaluator becomes more complicated.
The TypeScriptReflectionHost and other miscellaneous functions have moved
into a new 'reflection' package. The former 'host' package which contained
the ReflectionHost interface and associated types was also merged into this
new 'reflection' package.
Finally, the Reference APIs were moved to the 'imports' package, which will
consolidate all import-related logic in ngtsc.
PR Close#27743
