Currently it is impossible to determine the source of a binding that
generates `BoundAttribute` because all bound attributes generated from a
microsyntax expression share the same source span.
For example, in
```html
<div *ngFor="let item of items; trackBy: trackByFn"></div>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
source span for all `BoundAttribute`s generated from microsyntax
```
the `BoundAttribute` for both `ngForOf` and `ngForTrackBy`
share the same source span.
A lot of hacks were necessary in View Engine language service to work
around this limitation. It was done by inspecting the whole source span
then figuring out the relative position of the cursor.
With this change, we introduce a flag to set the binding span as the
source span of the `ParsedProperty` in Ivy AST.
This flag is needed so that we don't have to change VE ASTs.
Note that in the binding parser, we already set `bindingSpan` as the
source span for a `ParsedVariable`, and `keySpan` as the source span for
a literal attribute. This change makes the Ivy AST more consistent by
propagating the binding span to `ParsedProperty` as well.
PR Close#39036
This commit updates the symbols in the TemplateTypeCheck API and methods
for retrieving them:
* Include `isComponent` and `selector` for directives so callers can determine which
attributes on an element map to the matched directives.
* Add a new `TextAttributeSymbol` and return this when requesting a symbol for a `TextAttribute`.
* When requesting a symbol for `PropertyWrite` and `MethodCall`, use the
`nameSpan` to retrieve symbols.
* Add fix to retrieve generic directives attached to elements/templates.
PR Close#38844
Now that we have `keySpan` for `BoundAttribute` (implemented in
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/38898) we could do the same
for `Variable`.
This would allow us to distinguish the LHS and RHS from the whole source
span.
PR Close#38965
Some compiler tests take a long time to run, even using multiple
executors. A profiling session revealed that most time is spent in
parsing source files, especially the default libraries are expensive to
parse.
The default library files are constant across all tests, so this commit
introduces a shared cache of parsed source files of the default
libraries. This achieves a significant improvement for several targets
on my machine:
//packages/compiler-cli/test/compliance: from 23s to 5s.
//packages/compiler-cli/test/ngtsc: from 115s to 11s.
Note that the number of shards for the compliance tests has been halved,
as the extra shards no longer provide any speedup.
PR Close#38909
Though we currently have the knowledge of where the `key` for an
attribute binding appears during parsing, we do not propagate this
information to the output AST. This means that once we produce the
template AST, we have no way of mapping a template position to the key
span alone. The best we can currently do is map back to the
`sourceSpan`. This presents problems downstream, specifically for the
language service, where we cannot provide correct information about a
position in a template because the AST is not granular enough.
PR Close#38898
Using an interface makes the code cleaner and more readable.
This change also adds the `range` property to the type to be used
for source-mapping.
PR Close#38775
Let's say we have a code like
```html
<div<span>123</span>
```
Currently this gets parsed into a tree with the element tag `div<span`.
This has at least two downsides:
- An incorrect diagnostic that `</span>` doesn't close an element is
emitted.
- A consumer of the parse tree using it for editor services is unable to
provide correct completions for the opening `<span>` tag.
This patch attempts to fix both issues by instead parsing the code into
the same tree that would be parsed for `<div></div><span>123</span>`.
In particular, we do this by optimistically scanning an open tag as
usual, but if we do not notice a terminating '>', we mark the tag as
"incomplete". A parser then emits an error for the incomplete tag and
adds a synthetic (recovered) element node to the tree with the
incomplete open tag's name.
What's the downside of this? For one, a breaking change.
<ol>
<li>
The first breaking change is that `<` symbols that are ambiguously text
or opening tags will be parsed as opening tags instead of text in
element bodies. Take the code
```html
<p>a<b</p>
```
Clearly we cannot have the best of both worlds, and this patch chooses
to swap the parsing strategy to support the new feature. Of course, `<`
can still be inserted as text via the `<` entity.
</li>
</ol>
Part of #38596
PR Close#38681
The current tests print out the span numbers, which are really difficult to verify
since it requires manually going to the template string and looking at what
characters appear within those indexes. The better humanization would be
to use the toString method of the spans, which prints the span text itself
PR Close#38902
Common AST formats such as TS and Babel do not use a separate
node for comments, but instead attach comments to other AST nodes.
Previously this was worked around in TS by creating a `NotEmittedStatement`
AST node to attach the comment to. But Babel does not have this facility,
so it will not be a viable approach for the linker.
This commit refactors the output AST, to remove the `CommentStmt` and
`JSDocCommentStmt` nodes. Instead statements have a collection of
`leadingComments` that are rendered/attached to the final AST nodes
when being translated or printed.
PR Close#38811
Recent work on compiler internals in #38539 led to an unexpected failure,
where a pipe used exclusively inside of an ICU would no longer be
emitted into the compilation output. This caused runtime errors due to
missing pipes.
The issue occurred because the change in #38539 would determine the set
of used pipes up-front, independent from the template compilation using
the `R3TargetBinder`. However, `R3TargetBinder` did not consider
expressions within ICUs, so any pipe usages within those expressions
would not be detected. This fix unblocks #38539 and also concerns
upcoming linker work, given that prelink compilations would not go
through full template compilation but only `R3TargetBinder`.
PR Close#38810
In a microsyntax expressions, some attributes are not bound after
desugaring. For example,
```html
<div *ngFor="let item of items">
</div>
```
gets desugared to
```html
<ng-template ngFor let-items [ngForOf]="items">
</ngtemplate>
```
In this case, `ngFor` should be a literal attribute with no RHS value.
Therefore, its source span should be just the `keySpan` and not the
source span of the original template node.
This allows language service to precisely pinpoint different spans in a
microsyntax to provide accurate information.
PR Close#38766
Previously, localized strings had very limited or incorrect source-mapping
information available.
Now the i18n AST nodes and related output AST nodes include source-span
information about message-parts and placeholders - including closing tag
placeholders.
This information is then used when generating the final localized string
ASTs to ensure that the correct source-mapping is rendered.
See #38588 (comment)
PR Close#38645
The `MessagePiece` and derived classes, `LiteralPiece` and `PlaceholderPiece`
need to be referenced in the `LocalizedString` output AST class, so that we
can render the source-spans of each piece.
PR Close#38645
The `TagPlaceholder` can contain children, in which case there are two source
spans of interest: the opening tag and the closing tag. This commit now allows
the closing tag source-span to be tracked, so that it can be used later in
source-mapping.
PR Close#38645
The expression parser will split the expression up at the interpolation markers
into expressions and static strings. This commit also captures the positions of
these strings in the expression to be used in source-mapping later.
PR Close#38645
Previously this interface was mostly stored in compiler-cli, but it
contains some properties that would be useful for compiling the
"declare component" prelink code.
This commit moves some of the interface over to the compiler
package so that it can be referenced there without creating a
circular dependency between the compiler and compiler-cli.
PR Close#38594
The `R3TargetBinder` accepts an interface for directive metadata which
declares types for `input` and `output` objects. These types convey the
mapping between the property names for an input or output and the
corresponding property name on the component class. Due to
`R3TargetBinder`'s requirements, this mapping was specified with property
names as keys and field names as values.
However, because of duck typing, this interface was accidentally satisifed
by the opposite mapping, of field names to property names, that was produced
in other parts of the compiler. This form more naturally represents the data
model for inputs.
Rather than accept the field -> property mapping and invert it, this commit
introduces a new abstraction for such mappings which is bidirectional,
eliminating the ambiguous plain object type. This mapping uses new,
unambiguous terminology ("class property name" and "binding property name")
and can be used to satisfy both the needs of the binder as well as those of
the template type-checker (field -> property).
A new test ensures that the input/output metadata produced by the compiler
during analysis is directly compatible with the binder via this unambiguous
new interface.
PR Close#38685
Previously, the compiler was not able to display template parsing errors as
true `ts.Diagnostic`s that point inside the template. Instead, it would
throw an actual `Error`, and "crash" with a stack trace containing the
template errors.
Not only is this a poor user experience, but it causes the Language Service
to also crash as the user is editing a template (in actuality the LS has to
work around this bug).
With this commit, such parsing errors are converted to true template
diagnostics with appropriate span information to be displayed contextually
along with all other diagnostics. This majorly improves the user experience
and unblocks the Language Service from having to deal with the compiler
"crashing" to report errors.
PR Close#38576
Previously, the `sourceSpan` and `startSourceSpan` were the same
object, which meant that you had the following situation:
```
element = <div>some content</div>
sourceSpan = <div>
startSourceSpan = <div>
endSourceSpan = </div>
```
This made `sourceSpan` redundant and meant that if you
wanted a span for the whole element including its content
and closing tag, it had to be computed.
Now `sourceSpan` is separated from `startSourceSpan`
resulting in:
```
element = <div>some content</div>
sourceSpan = <div>some content</div>
startSourceSpan = <div>
endSourceSpan = </div>
```
PR Close#38581
Previously, the `startSourceSpan` property could be null
but in reality it is always well defined - except for a legacy
case in the old i18n extraction/merging code, where the
typings for source-spans are already being undermined.
Making this property non-null, simplifies code elsewhere
in the project.
PR Close#38581
Previously the lexer was responsible for deciding whether an "inline"
template should also have its line-endings normalized.
Now this decision is made higher up in the call stack to allow more
flexibility in the parser/lexer.
PR Close#38581
The HTML parser gets an element's namespace either from the tag name
(e.g. `<svg:rect>`) or from its parent element `<svg><rect></svg>`) which
breaks down when an element is inside of an SVG `foreignElement`,
because foreign elements allow nodes from a different namespace to be
inserted into an SVG.
These changes add another flag to the tag definitions which tells child
nodes whether to try to inherit their namespaces from their parents.
It also adds a definition for `foreignObject` with the new flag,
allowing elements placed inside it to infer their namespaces instead.
Fixes#37218.
PR Close#38477
Prior to this change, the unary + and - operators would be parsed as `x - 0`
and `0 - x` respectively. The runtime semantics of these expressions are
equivalent, however they may introduce inaccurate template type checking
errors as the literal type is lost, for example:
```ts
@Component({
template: `<button [disabled]="isAdjacent(-1)"></button>`
})
export class Example {
isAdjacent(direction: -1 | 1): boolean { return false; }
}
```
would incorrectly report a type-check error:
> error TS2345: Argument of type 'number' is not assignable to parameter
of type '-1 | 1'.
Additionally, the translated expression for the unary + operator would be
considered as arithmetic expression with an incompatible left-hand side:
> error TS2362: The left-hand side of an arithmetic operation must be of
type 'any', 'number', 'bigint' or an enum type.
To resolve this issues, the implicit transformation should be avoided.
This commit adds a new unary AST node to represent these expressions,
allowing for more accurate type-checking.
Fixes#20845Fixes#36178
PR Close#37918
This commit updates the code to move generated i18n statements into the `consts` field of
ComponentDef to avoid invoking `$localize` function before component initialization (to better
support runtime translations) and also avoid problems with lazy-loading when i18n defs may not
be present in a chunk where it's referenced.
Prior to this change the i18n statements were generated at the top leve:
```
var I18N_0;
if (typeof ngI18nClosureMode !== "undefined" && ngI18nClosureMode) {
var MSG_X = goog.getMsg(“…”);
I18N_0 = MSG_X;
} else {
I18N_0 = $localize('...');
}
defineComponent({
// ...
template: function App_Template(rf, ctx) {
i0.ɵɵi18n(2, I18N_0);
}
});
```
This commit updates the logic to generate the following code instead:
```
defineComponent({
// ...
consts: function() {
var I18N_0;
if (typeof ngI18nClosureMode !== "undefined" && ngI18nClosureMode) {
var MSG_X = goog.getMsg(“…”);
I18N_0 = MSG_X;
} else {
I18N_0 = $localize('...');
}
return [
I18N_0
];
},
template: function App_Template(rf, ctx) {
i0.ɵɵi18n(2, 0);
}
});
```
Also note that i18n template instructions now refer to the `consts` array using an index
(similar to other template instructions).
PR Close#38404
When using the safe navigation operator in a binding expression, a temporary
variable may be used for storing the result of a side-effectful call.
For example, the following template uses a pipe and a safe property access:
```html
<app-person-view [enabled]="enabled" [firstName]="(person$ | async)?.name"></app-person-view>
```
The result of the pipe evaluation is stored in a temporary to be able to check
whether it is present. The temporary variable needs to be declared in a separate
statement and this would also cause the full expression itself to be pulled out
into a separate statement. This would compile into the following
pseudo-code instructions:
```js
var temp = null;
var firstName = (temp = pipe('async', ctx.person$)) == null ? null : temp.name;
property('enabled', ctx.enabled)('firstName', firstName);
```
Notice that the pipe evaluation happens before evaluating the `enabled` binding,
such that the runtime's internal binding index would correspond with `enabled`,
not `firstName`. This introduces a problem when the pipe uses `WrappedValue` to
force a change to be detected, as the runtime would then mark the binding slot
corresponding with `enabled` as dirty, instead of `firstName`. This results
in the `enabled` binding to be updated, triggering setters and affecting how
`OnChanges` is called.
In the pseudo-code above, the intermediate `firstName` variable is not strictly
necessary---it only improved readability a bit---and emitting it inline with
the binding itself avoids the out-of-order execution of the pipe:
```js
var temp = null;
property('enabled', ctx.enabled)
('firstName', (temp = pipe('async', ctx.person$)) == null ? null : temp.name);
```
This commit introduces a new `BindingForm` that results in the above code to be
generated and adds compiler and acceptance tests to verify the proper behavior.
Fixes#37194
PR Close#37911
Within an angular template, when a character entity is unable to be parsed, previously a generic
unexpected character error was thrown. This does not properly express the issue that was discovered
as the issue is actually caused by the discovered character making the whole of the entity unparsable.
The compiler will now instead inform via the error message what string was attempted to be parsed
and what it was attempted to be parsed as.
Example, for this template:
```
<p>
ģp
</p>
```
Before this change:
`Unexpected character "p"`
After this change:
`Unable to parse entity "ģp" - hexadecimal character reference entities must end with ";"`
Fixes#26067
PR Close#38319
Currently the `getInheritedFactory` function is implemented to allow
closure to remove the call if the base factory is unused. However, this
method does not work with terser. By adding the PURE annotation,
terser will also be able to remove the call when unused.
PR Close#38291
This commit fixes a bug in View Engine whereby the compiler errorneously
thinks that a method of a component has decorator metadata when that
method is one of those in `Object.prototype`, for example `toString`.
This bug is discovered in v10.0.4 of `@angular/language-service` after
the default bundle format was switched from ES5 to ES2015.
ES5 output:
```js
if (propMetadata[propName]) {
decorators.push.apply(decorators, __spread(propMetadata[propName]));
}
```
ES2015 output:
```js
if (propMetadata[propName]) {
decorators.push(...propMetadata[propName]);
}
```
The bug was not discovered in ES5 because the polyfill for the spread
operator happily accepts parameters that do not have the `iterable`
symbol:
```js
function __spread() {
for (var ar = [], i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++)
ar = ar.concat(__read(arguments[i]));
return ar;
}
```
whereas in es2015 it’ll fail since the iterable symbol is not present in
`propMetadata['toString']` which evaluates to a function.
Fixes https://github.com/angular/vscode-ng-language-service/issues/859
PR Close#38292
Large strings constants are now wrapped in a function which is called whenever used. This works around a unique
limitation of Closure, where it will **always** inline string literals at **every** usage, regardless of how large the
string literal is or how many times it is used.The workaround is to use a function rather than a string literal.
Closure has differently inlining semantics for functions, where it will check the length of the function and the number
of times it is used before choosing to inline it. By using a function, `ngtsc` makes Closure more conservative about
inlining large strings, and avoids blowing up the bundle size.This optimization is only used if the constant is a large
string. A wrapping function is not included for other use cases, since it would just increase the bundle size and add
unnecessary runtime performance overhead.
PR Close#38253
`Attribute` decorator has defined `attributeName` as optional but actually its
mandatory and compiler throws an error if `attributeName` is undefined. Made
`attributeName` mandatory in the `Attribute` decorator to reflect this functionality
Fixes#32658
PR Close#38131
Prior to this commit, duplicated styles defined in multiple components in the same file were not
shared between components, thus causing extra payload size. This commit updates compiler logic to
use `ConstantPool` for the styles (while generating the `styles` array on component def), which
enables styles sharing when needed (when duplicates styles are present).
Resolves#38204.
PR Close#38213
Prior to this commit, the `ConstantPool` ignored all primitive values. It turned out that it's
beneficial to include strings above certain length to the pool as well. This commit updates the
`ConstantPool` logic to allow such strings to be shared across multiple instances if needed.
For instance, this is helpful for component styles that might be reused across multiple components
in the same file.
PR Close#38213
This commit updates synthetic host property and listener instruction names to better align with other instructions.
The `ɵɵupdateSyntheticHostBinding` instruction was renamed to `ɵɵsyntheticHostProperty` (to match the `ɵɵhostProperty`
instruction name) and `ɵɵcomponentHostSyntheticListener` was renamed to `ɵɵsyntheticHostListener` since this
instruction is generated for both Components and Directives (so 'component' is removed from the name).
This PR is a followup after PR #35568.
PR Close#37145
HTML is very lenient when it comes to closing elements, so Angular's parser has
rules that specify which elements are implicitly closed when closing a tag.
The parser keeps track of the nesting of tag names using a stack and parsing
a closing tag will pop as many elements off the stack as possible, provided
that the elements can be implicitly closed.
For example, consider the following templates:
- `<div><br></div>`, the `<br>` is implicitly closed when parsing `</div>`,
because `<br>` is a void element.
- `<div><p></div>`, the `<p>` is implicitly closed when parsing `</div>`,
as `<p>` is allowed to be closed by the closing of its parent element.
- `<ul><li>A <li>B</ul>`, the first `<li>` is implicitly closed when parsing
the second `<li>`, whereas the second `<li>` would be implicitly closed when
parsing the `</ul>`.
In all the cases above the parsed structure would be correct, however the source
span of the closing `</div>` would incorrectly be assigned to the element that
is implicitly closed. The problem was that closing an element would associate
the source span with the element at the top of the stack, however this may not
be the element that is actually being closed if some elements would be
implicitly closed.
This commit fixes the issue by assigning the end source span with the element
on the stack that is actually being closed. Any implicitly closed elements that
are popped off the stack will not be assigned an end source span, as the
implicit closing implies that no ending element is present.
Note that there is a difference between self-closed elements such as `<input/>`
and implicitly closed elements such as `<input>`. The former does have an end
source span (identical to its start source span) whereas the latter does not.
Fixes#36118
Resolves FW-2004
PR Close#38126
Fixes the following issues related to how we validate properties during JIT:
- The invalid property warning was printing `null` as the node name
for `ng-content`. The problem is that when generating a template from
`ng-content` we weren't capturing the node name.
- We weren't running property validation on `ng-container` at all.
This used to be supported on ViewEngine and seems like an oversight.
In the process of making these changes, I found and cleaned up a
few places where we were passing in `LView` unnecessarily.
PR Close#37773
Builds on top of #34655 to support more cases that could be using a pipe inside host bindings (e.g. ternary expressions or function calls).
Fixes#37610.
PR Close#37883
Currently when the `plural` or `select` keywords in an ICU contain trailing spaces (e.g. `{count, select , ...}`), these spaces are also included into the key names in ICU vars (e.g. "VAR_SELECT "). These trailing spaces are not desirable, since they will later be converted into `_` symbols while normalizing placeholder names, thus causing mismatches at runtime (i.e. placeholder will not be replaced with the correct value). This commit updates the code to trim these spaces while generating an object with placeholders, to make sure the runtime logic can replace these placeholders with the right values.
PR Close#37866
Previously localized strings were not mapped to their original
source location, so it was not possible to back-trace them
in tools like the i18n message extractor.
PR Close#32912
Currently Angular internally already handles `InjectionToken` as
predicates for queries. This commit exposes this as public API as
developers already relied on this functionality but currently use
workarounds to satisfy the type constraints (e.g. `as any`).
We intend to make this public as it's low-effort to support, and
it's a significant key part for the use of light-weight tokens as
described in the upcoming guide: https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/36144.
In concrete, applications might use injection tokens over classes
for both optional DI and queries, because otherwise such references
cause classes to be always retained. This was also an issue in View
Engine, but now with Ivy, this pattern became worse, as factories are
directly attached to retained classes (ultimately ending up in the
production bundle, while being unused).
More details in the light-weight token guide and in: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/16866.
Closes#21152. Related to #36144.
PR Close#37506
Previously the comments for these files referenced a path to "packages/core/src/render3/jit/compiler_facade_interface.ts" that does not exist in the current codebase.
This PR corrects the path in these comments.
PR Close#37370
Due to an outage with the proxy we rely on for publishing, we need
to temporarily directly publish to NPM using our own angular
credentials again.
PR Close#37378
Tslib version is bound to the TypeScript version used to compile the library. Thus, we shouldn't list `tslib` as a `peerDependencies`. This is because, a user can install libraries which have been compiled with older versions of TypeScript and thus require multiple `tslib` versions to be installed.
Reference: TOOL-1374 and TOOL-1375
Closes: #37188
PR Close#37198
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