This commit removes the `NullAstVisitor` and `visitAstChildren` exported
from `packages/compiler/src/expression_parser/ast.ts` because they
contain duplicate and buggy implementation, and their use cases could be
sufficiently covered by `RecursiveAstVisitor` if the latter implements the
`visit` method. This use case is only needed in the language service.
With this change, any visitor that extends `RecursiveAstVisitor` could
just define their own `visit` function and the parent class will behave
correctly.
A bit of historical context:
In language service, we need a way to tranverse the expression AST in a
selective manner based on where the user's cursor is. This means we need a
"filtering" function to decide which node to visit and which node to not
visit. Instead of refactoring `RecursiveAstVisitor` to support this,
`visitAstChildren` was created. `visitAstChildren` duplicates the
implementation of `RecursiveAstVisitor`, but introduced some bugs along
the way. For example, in `visitKeyedWrite`, it visits
```
obj -> key -> obj
```
instead of
```
obj -> key -> value
```
Moreover, because of the following line
```
visitor.visit && visitor.visit(ast, context) || ast.visit(visitor, context);
```
`visitAstChildren` visits every node *twice*.
PR Close#35619
In Angular, symbol can have multiple definitions (e.g. a two-way
binding). This commit adds support for for multiple definitions for a
queried location in a template.
PR Close#34782
The following files are consumed only by the language service and do not
have to be in compiler-cli:
1. expression_diagnostics.ts
2. expression_type.ts
3. typescript_symbols.ts
4. symbols.ts
PR Close#33809
Moves to using the absolute span of an expression AST (relative to an
entire template) rather than a relative span (relative to the start
of the expression) to find an expression AST given a position in a
template.
This is part of the changes needed to support text replacement in
templates (#33091).
PR Close#33387
Removes the tsickle dependency added when tsickle was added to the
transform compiler.
Added a test to ensure stray dependencies are not added and no
errors are introduced during module flattening.
Template expressions can now use a post-fix `!` operator
that asserts the target of the operator is not null. This is
similar to the TypeScript non-null assert operator. Expressions
generated in factories will be generated with the non-null assert
operator.
Closes: #10855
Reworked some of the code so asserts are no longer necessary.
Added additional and potentially redundant checks
Added checks where the null checker found real problems.
PR Close#16422
