Currently the `@angular/compiler-cli` compliance tests sometimes do
not throw an exception if the expected output does not match the
generated JavaScript output. This can happen for the following cases:
1. Expected code includes character that is not part of known alphabet
(e.g. `Δ` is still used in a new compliance test after rebasing a PR)
2. Expected code asserts that a string literal matches a string with
escaped quotes. e.g. expects `const $var$ = "\"quoted\"";`)
PR Close#30597
There is an encoding issue with using delta `Δ`, where the browser will attempt to detect the file encoding if the character set is not explicitly declared on a `<script/>` tag, and Chrome will find the `Δ` character and decide it is window-1252 encoding, which misinterprets the `Δ` character to be some other character that is not a valid JS identifier character
So back to the frog eyes we go.
```
__
/ɵɵ\
( -- ) - I am ineffable. I am forever.
_/ \_
/ \ / \
== == ==
```
PR Close#30546
The `Δ` caused issue with other infrastructure, and we are temporarily
changing it to `ɵɵ`.
This commit also patches ts_api_guardian_test and AIO to understand `ɵɵ`.
PR Close#29850
before:
```
Expected to find features 'import * as i0 from "@angular/core";
import { Directive, Input } from '@angular/core';
```
after:
```
Failed to find "template" after "...Component_Factory() { return new
MyComponent(); }," in:
'import * as i0 from "@angular/core";
import { Directive, Input } from '@angular/core';```
```
PR Close#25291
Previously the compiler compliance tests ran and built test code with
real dependencies on @angular/core and @angular/common. This meant that
any changes to the compiler would result in long rebuild processes
for tests to rerun.
This change removes those dependencies and causes test code to be built
against the fake_core stub of @angular/core that the ngtsc tests use.
This change also removes the dependency on @angular/common entirely, as
locality means it's possible to reference *ngIf without needing to link
to an implementation.
PR Close#25248
This commit moves the compiler compliance tests into compiler-cli,
and uses ngtsc to run them instead of the custom compilation
pipeline used before. Testing against ngtsc allows for validation
of the real compiler output.
This commit also fixes a few small issues that prevented the tests
from passing.
PR Close#24862
Paul Gschwendtner
Ben Lesh
Alex Rickabaugh
Miško Hevery
Victor Berchet