In certain configurations (such as the g3 repository) which have lots of
small compilation units as well as strict dependency checking on generated
code, ngtsc's default strategy of directly importing directives/pipes into
components will not work. To handle these cases, an additional mode is
introduced, and is enabled when using the FileToModuleHost provided by such
compilation environments.
In this mode, when ngtsc encounters an NgModule which re-exports another
from a different file, it will re-export all the directives it contains at
the ES2015 level. The exports will have a predictable name based on the
FileToModuleHost. For example, if the host says that a directive Foo is
from the 'root/external/foo' module, ngtsc will add:
```
export {Foo as ɵng$root$external$foo$$Foo} from 'root/external/foo';
```
Consumers of the re-exported directive will then import it via this path
instead of directly from root/external/foo, preserving strict dependency
semantics.
PR Close#28852
Prior to this change, the @fileoverview annotations added by users in source files or by tsickle during compilation might have change a location due to the fact that Ngtsc may prepend extra imports or constants. As a result, the output file is considered invalid by Closure (misplaced @fileoverview annotation). In order to resolve the problem we relocate @fileoverview annotation if we detect that its host node shifted.
PR Close#28723
Previously, ngtsc would throw an error if two decorators were matched on
the same class simultaneously. However, @Injectable is a special case, and
it appears frequently on component, directive, and pipe classes. For pipes
in particular, it's a common pattern to treat the pipe class also as an
injectable service.
ngtsc actually lacked the capability to compile multiple matching
decorators on a class, so this commit adds support for that. Decorator
handlers (and thus the decorators they match) are classified into three
categories: PRIMARY, SHARED, and WEAK.
PRIMARY handlers compile decorators that cannot coexist with other primary
decorators. The handlers for Component, Directive, Pipe, and NgModule are
marked as PRIMARY. A class may only have one decorator from this group.
SHARED handlers compile decorators that can coexist with others. Injectable
is the only decorator in this category, meaning it's valid to put an
@Injectable decorator on a previously decorated class.
WEAK handlers behave like SHARED, but are dropped if any non-WEAK handler
matches a class. The handler which compiles ngBaseDef is WEAK, since
ngBaseDef is only needed if a class doesn't otherwise have a decorator.
Tests are added to validate that @Injectable can coexist with the other
decorators and that an error is generated when mixing the primaries.
PR Close#28523
The TypeTranslatorVisitor visitor returned strings because before it wasn't possible to transform declaration files directly through the TypeScript custom transformer API.
Now that's possible though, so it should return nodes instead.
PR Close#28342
The current DtsFileTransformer works by intercepting file writes and editing the source string directly.
This PR refactors it as a afterDeclaration transform in order to fit better in the TypeScript API.
This is part of a greater effort of converting ngtsc to be usable as a TS transform plugin.
PR Close#28342
By its nature, Ivy alters the import graph of a TS program, adding imports
where template dependencies exist. For example, if ComponentA uses PipeB
in its template, Ivy will insert an import of PipeB into the file in which
ComponentA is declared.
Any insertion of an import into a program has the potential to introduce a
cycle into the import graph. If for some reason the file in which PipeB is
declared imports the file in which ComponentA is declared (maybe it makes
use of a service or utility function that happens to be in the same file as
ComponentA) then this could create an import cycle. This turns out to
happen quite regularly in larger Angular codebases.
TypeScript and the Ivy runtime have no issues with such cycles. However,
other tools are not so accepting. In particular the Closure Compiler is
very anti-cycle.
To mitigate this problem, it's necessary to detect when the insertion of
an import would create a cycle. ngtsc can then use a different strategy,
known as "remote scoping", instead of directly writing a reference from
one component to another. Under remote scoping, a function
'setComponentScope' is called after the declaration of the component's
module, which does not require the addition of new imports.
FW-647 #resolve
PR Close#28169
Currently the ImportManager class handles various rewriting actions of
imports when compiling @angular/core. This is required as code compiled
within @angular/core cannot import from '@angular/core'. To work around
this, imports are rewritten to get core symbols from a particular file,
r3_symbols.ts.
In this refactoring, this rewriting logic is moved out of the ImportManager
and put behind an interface, ImportRewriter. There are three implementers
of the interface:
* NoopImportRewriter, used for compiling all non-core packages.
* R3SymbolsImportRewriter, used when ngtsc compiles @angular/core.
* NgccFlatImportRewriter, used when ngcc compiles @angular/core (special
logic is needed because ngcc has to rewrite imports in flat bundles
differently than in non-flat bundles).
This is a precursor to using this rewriting logic in other contexts besides
the ImportManager.
PR Close#27998
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
This commit enables generation and checking of a type checking ts.Program
whenever the fullTemplateTypeCheck flag is enabled in tsconfig.json. It
puts together all the pieces built previously and causes diagnostics to be
emitted whenever type errors are discovered in a template.
Todos:
* map errors back to template HTML
* expand set of type errors covered in generated type-check blocks
PR Close#26203
Template type-checking will make use of expression and statement
translation as well as the ImportManager, so this code needs to
live in a separate build target which can be depended on by both
the main ngtsc transform as well as the template type-checking
mechanism. This refactor introduces a separate build target
for that code.
PR Close#26203
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
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
When @angular/core is compiled by ngtsc, a factory file is generated
for ApplicationModule, that is currently invalid because r3_symbols
does not export NgModuleFactory. This change fixes that issue and
ensures the generated ngfactory file for @angular/core is valid.
PR Close#25392
This commit creates an API for factory functions which allows them
to be inherited from one another. To do so, it differentiates between
the factory function as a wrapper for a constructor and the factory
function in ngInjectableDefs which is determined by a default
provider.
The new form is:
factory: (t?) => new (t || SomeType)(inject(Dep1), inject(Dep2))
The 't' parameter allows for constructor inheritance. A subclass with
no declared constructor inherits its constructor from the superclass.
With the 't' parameter, a subclass can call the superclass' factory
function and use it to create an instance of the subclass.
For @Injectables with configured providers, the factory function is
of the form:
factory: (t?) => t ? constructorInject(t) : provider();
where constructorInject(t) creates an instance of 't' using the
naturally declared constructor of the type, and where provider()
creates an instance of the base type using the special declared
provider on @Injectable.
PR Close#25392
Previously, ngtsc used a new ConstantPool for each decorator
compilation. This could result in collisions between constants in the
top-level scope.
Now, ngtsc uses a single ConstantPool for each source file being
compiled, and merges the constant statements into the file after the
import section.
PR Close#25392
Existing bootstrap code in the wild depends on the existence of
.ngfactory files, which Ivy does not need. This commit adds the
capability in ngtsc to generate .ngfactory files which bridge
existing bootstrap code with Ivy.
This is an initial step. Remaining work includes complying with
the compiler option to specify a generated file directory, as well
as presumably testing in g3.
PR Close#25176
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
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
On accident a few of the definition types were emitted as public API
symbols. Much of the Ivy API surface is still prefixed with ɵ,
indicating it's a private API. The definition types should be private
for now.
PR Close#24738
This commit adds support for templateUrl in component templates within
ngtsc. The compilation pipeline is split into sync and async versions,
where asynchronous compilation invokes a special preanalyze() phase of
analysis. The preanalyze() phase can optionally return a Promise which
will delay compilation until it resolves.
A ResourceLoader interface is used to resolve templateUrls to template
strings and can return results either synchronously or asynchronously.
During sync compilation it is an error if the ResourceLoader returns a
Promise.
Two ResourceLoader implementations are provided. One uses 'fs' to read
resources directly from disk and is chosen if the CompilerHost doesn't
provide a readResource method. The other wraps the readResource method
from CompilerHost if it's provided.
PR Close#24704
Previously ngtsc removed the class-level decorators (@Component,
etc) but left all the ancillary decorators (@Input, @Optional,
etc).
This changes the transform to descend into the members of decorated
classes and remove any Angular decorators, not just the class-level
ones.
PR Close#24677
@angular/core is unique in that it defines the Angular decorators
(@Component, @Directive, etc). Ordinarily ngtsc looks for imports
from @angular/core in order to identify these decorators. Clearly
within core itself, this strategy doesn't work.
Instead, a special constant ITS_JUST_ANGULAR is declared within a
known file in @angular/core. If ngtsc sees this constant it knows
core is being compiled and can ignore the imports when evaluating
decorators.
Additionally, when compiling decorators ngtsc will often write an
import to @angular/core for needed symbols. However @angular/core
cannot import itself. This change creates a module within core to
export all the symbols needed to compile it and adds intelligence
within ngtsc to write relative imports to that module, instead of
absolute imports to @angular/core.
PR Close#24677
This change generates ngInjectorDef as well as ngModuleDef for @NgModule
annotated types, reflecting the dual nature of @NgModules as both compilation
scopes and as DI configuration containers.
This required implementing ngInjectorDef compilation in @angular/compiler as
well as allowing for multiple generated definitions for a single decorator in
the core of ngtsc.
PR Close#24632
All errors for existing fields have been detected and suppressed with a
`!` assertion.
Issue/24571 is tracking proper clean up of those instances.
One-line change required in ivy/compilation.ts, because it appears that
the new syntax causes tsickle emitted node to no longer track their
original sourceFiles.
PR Close#24572
ngtsc needs to reflect over code to property compile it. It performs operations
such as enumerating decorators on a type, reading metadata from constructor
parameters, etc.
Depending on the format (ES5, ES6, etc) of the underlying code, the AST
structures over which this reflection takes place can be very different. For
example, in TS/ES6 code `class` declarations are `ts.ClassDeclaration` nodes,
but in ES5 code they've been downleveled to `ts.VariableDeclaration` nodes that
are initialized to IIFEs that build up the classes being defined.
The ReflectionHost abstraction allows ngtsc to perform these operations without
directly querying the AST. Different implementations of ReflectionHost allow
support for different code formats.
PR Close#24541
This change supports compilation of components, directives, and modules
within ngtsc. Support is not complete, but is enough to compile and test
//packages/core/test/bundling/todo in full AOT mode. Code size benefits
are not yet achieved as //packages/core itself does not get compiled, and
some decorators (e.g. @Input) are not stripped, leading to unwanted code
being retained by the tree-shaker. This will be improved in future commits.
PR Close#24427
This commit adds a mechanism by which the @angular/core annotations
for @Component, @Injectable, and @NgModule become decorators which,
when executed at runtime, trigger just-in-time compilation of their
associated types. The activation of these decorators is configured
by the ivy_switch mechanism, ensuring that the Ivy JIT engine does
not get included in Angular bundles unless specifically requested.
PR Close#23833
Previously, the compileComponent() and compileDirective() APIs still required
the output of global analysis, even though they only read local information
from that output.
With this refactor, compileComponent() and compileDirective() now define
their inputs explicitly, with the new interfaces R3ComponentMetadata and
R3DirectiveMetadata. compileComponentGlobal() and compileDirectiveGlobal()
are introduced and convert from global analysis output into the new metadata
format.
This refactor also splits out the view compiler into separate files as
r3_view_compiler_local.ts was getting unwieldy.
Finally, this refactor also splits out generation of DI factory functions
into a separate r3_factory utility as the logic is utilized between different
compilers.
PR Close#23545
This commit adds a new compiler pipeline that isn't dependent on global
analysis, referred to as 'ngtsc'. This new compiler is accessed by
running ngc with "enableIvy" set to "ngtsc". It reuses the same initialization
logic but creates a new implementation of Program which does not perform the
global-level analysis that AngularCompilerProgram does. It will be the
foundation for the production Ivy compiler.
PR Close#23455
