Previously in Ivy, metadata for directives/components/modules/etc was
carried in .d.ts files inside type information encoded on the
DirectiveDef, ComponentDef, NgModuleDef, etc types of Ivy definition
fields. This works well, but has the side effect of complicating Ivy's
runtime code as these extra generic type parameters had to be specified
as <any> throughout the codebase. *DefInternal types were introduced
previously to mitigate this issue, but that's the wrong way to solve
the problem.
This commit returns *Def types to their original form, with no metadata
attached. Instead, new *DefWithMeta types are introduced that alias the
plain definition types and add extra generic parameters. This way the
only code that needs to deal with the extra metadata parameters is the
compiler code that reads and writes them - the existence of this metadata
is transparent to the runtime, as it should be.
PR Close#26203
Create getter methods `getXXXDef` for each definition which
uses `hasOwnProperty` to verify that we don't accidently read form the
parent class.
Fixes: #24011Fixes: #25026
PR Close#25736
defineComponent() and friends can return a flyweight EMPTY object for
specific fields when they contain no data. InheritDefinitionFeature
was attempting to write into these flyweight objects, which have been
protected with Object.freeze().
This commit adds detection to InheritDefinitionFeature to identify the
frozen objects.
PR Close#25755
- Adds InheritanceDefinitionFeature to ivy
- Ensures that lifecycle hooks are inherited from super classes whether they are defined as directives or not
- Directives cannot inherit from Components
- Components can inherit from Directives or Components
- Ensures that Inputs, Outputs, and Host Bindings are inherited
- Ensures that super class Features are run
PR Close#24570
