
This commit adds the ability to change directories using the compiler's internal filesystem abstraction. This is a prerequisite for writing tests which are sensitive to the current working directory. In addition to supporting the `chdir()` operation, this commit also fixes `getDefaultLibLocation()` for mock filesystems to not assume `node_modules` is in the current directory, but to resolve it similarly to how Node does by progressively looking higher in the directory tree. PR Close #33828
Virtual file-system layer
To improve cross platform support, all file access (and path manipulation)
is now done through a well known interface (FileSystem
).
For testing a number of MockFileSystem
implementations are supplied.
These provide an in-memory file-system which emulates operating systems
like OS/X, Unix and Windows.
The current file system is always available via the helper method,
getFileSystem()
. This is also used by a number of helper
methods to avoid having to pass FileSystem
objects around all the time.
The result of this is that one must be careful to ensure that the file-system
has been initialized before using any of these helper methods.
To prevent this happening accidentally the current file system always starts out
as an instance of InvalidFileSystem
, which will throw an error if any of its
methods are called.
You can set the current file-system by calling setFileSystem()
.
During testing you can call the helper function initMockFileSystem(os)
which takes a string name of the OS to emulate, and will also monkey-patch
aspects of the TypeScript library to ensure that TS is also using the
current file-system.
Finally there is the NgtscCompilerHost
to be used for any TypeScript
compilation, which uses a given file-system.
All tests that interact with the file-system should be tested against each of the mock file-systems. A series of helpers have been provided to support such tests:
runInEachFileSystem()
- wrap your tests in this helper to run all the wrapped tests in each of the mock file-systems, it callsinitMockFileSystem()
for each OS to emulate.loadTestFiles()
- use this to add files and their contents to the mock file system for testing.loadStandardTestFiles()
- use this to load a mirror image of files on disk into the in-memory mock file-system.loadFakeCore()
- use this to load a fake version of@angular/core
into the mock file-system.
All ngcc and ngtsc source and tests now use this virtual file-system setup.