Folding errors passed calls prevented the static reflector from
begin able to ignore errors in annotations it doesn't know as
the call to the unknown annotation was elided from the metadata.
Fixes: #21273
PR Close#21708
Structural directives can now specify a type guard that describes
what types can be inferred for an input expression inside the
directive's template.
NgIf was modified to declare an input guard on ngIf.
After this change, `fullTemplateTypeCheck` will infer that
usage of `ngIf` expression inside it's template is truthy.
For example, if a component has a property `person?: Person`
and a template of `<div *ngIf="person"> {{person.name}} </div>`
the compiler will no longer report that `person` might be null or
undefined.
The template compiler will generate code similar to,
```
if (NgIf.ngIfTypeGuard(instance.person)) {
instance.person.name
}
```
to validate the template's use of the interpolation expression.
Calling the type guard in this fashion allows TypeScript to infer
that `person` is non-null.
Fixes: #19756?
PR Close#20702
The errors produced when error were encountered while interpreting the
content of a directive was often incomprehencible. With this change
these kind of error messages should be easier to understand and diagnose.
PR Close#20459
Also adds auto upgrade from lower version based
on the .d.ts file (e.g. from version 3 to 4).
This is needed as we are now also capturing type aliases
in metadata files (and we rely on this),
see 6e3498ca8e.
- temporarily keeps the old sources under packages/tsc-wrapped
until the build scripts are changed to use compiler-cli everywhere.
- removes the compiler options `disableTransformerPipeline` that was introduced
in a previous beta of Angular 5, i.e. the transformer based compiler
is now always enabled.
PR Close#18966
Chuck Jazdzewski
Alex Eagle
Tobias Bosch
Olivier Combe
Matias Niemelä