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
Create getter methods `getXXXDef` for each definition which
uses `hasOwnProperty` to verify that we don't accidently read form the
parent class.
Fixes: #24011Fixes: #25026
PR Close#25736
Various user code uses 'instanceof' to check whether a particular instance
is a TemplateRef, ElementRef, etc. Ivy needs to work with these checks.
PR Close#25775
Provides a runtime and compile time switch for ivy including
`ApplicationRef.bootstrapModule`.
This is done by naming the symbols such that `ngcc` (angular
Compatibility compiler) can rename symbols in such a way that running
`ngcc` command will switch the `@angular/core` module from `legacy` to
`ivy` mode.
This is done as follows:
```
const someToken__PRE_NGCC__ = ‘legacy mode’;
const someToken__POST_NGCC__ = ‘ivy mode’;
export someSymbol = someToken__PRE_NGCC__;
```
The `ngcc` will search for any token which ends with `__PRE_NGCC__`
and replace it with `__POST_NGCC__`. This allows the `@angular/core`
package to be rewritten to ivy mode post `ngcc` execution.
PR Close#25238
When an Angular decorated class is inherited, it might be the case that
the entire inheritance chain actually has no constructor defined. In
that event, a factory which simply instantiates the type without any
arguments should be used.
PR Close#25425
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
This commit adds basic support for <ng-container> - most of the
functionality should work as long as <ng-container> is a child of
a regular element.
PR Close#25227
- `directiveInjector()` is used to inject anything in the directive / component
/ pipe factories so adding `InjectionToken<T>` as a supported token type.
- `getOrCreateInjectable()` should search first in the node injector tree and
then in the module injector tree (was either or before the PR).
PR Close#25166
