This commit refactors and expands ngtsc's support for generating imports of
values from imports of types (this is used for example when importing a
class referenced in a type annotation in a constructor).
Previously, this logic handled "import {Foo} from" and "import * as foo
from" style imports, but failed on imports of default values ("import
Foo from"). This commit moves the type-to-value logic to a separate file and
expands it to cover the default import case. Doing this also required
augmenting the ImportManager to track default as well as non-default import
generation. The APIs were made a little cleaner at the same time.
PR Close#29146
ngtsc occasionally converts a type reference (such as the type of a
parameter in a constructor) to a value reference (argument to a
directiveInject call). TypeScript has a bad habit of sometimes removing
the import statement associated with this type reference, because it's a
type only import when it initially looks at the file.
A solution to this is to always add an import to refer to a type position
value that's imported, and not rely on the existing import.
PR Close#29111
This refactoring moves code around between a few of the ngtsc subpackages,
with the goal of having a more logical package structure. Additional
interfaces are also introduced where they make sense.
The 'metadata' package formerly contained both the partial evaluator,
the TypeScriptReflectionHost as well as some other reflection functions,
and the Reference interface and various implementations. This package
was split into 3 parts.
The partial evaluator now has its own package 'partial_evaluator', and
exists behind an interface PartialEvaluator instead of a top-level
function. In the future this will be useful for reducing churn as the
partial evaluator becomes more complicated.
The TypeScriptReflectionHost and other miscellaneous functions have moved
into a new 'reflection' package. The former 'host' package which contained
the ReflectionHost interface and associated types was also merged into this
new 'reflection' package.
Finally, the Reference APIs were moved to the 'imports' package, which will
consolidate all import-related logic in ngtsc.
PR Close#27743
