In Ivy, a pure call to `setClassMetadata` is inserted to retain the
information that would otherwise be lost while eliding the Angular
decorators. In the past, the Angular constructor decorators were
wrapped inside of an anonymous function which was only evaluated once
`ReflectionCapabilities` was requested for such metadata. This approach
prevents forward references from inside the constructor parameter
decorators from being evaluated before they are available.
In the `setClassMetadata` call, the constructor parameters were not wrapped
within an anonymous function, such that forward references were evaluated
too early, causing runtime errors.
This commit changes the `setClassMetadata` call to pass the constructor
parameter decorators inside of an anonymous function again, such that
forward references are not resolved until requested by
`ReflectionCapabilities`, therefore avoiding the early reads of forward refs.
PR Close#27561
This commit introduces the setClassMetadata() private function, which
adds metadata to a type in a way that can be accessed via Angular's
ReflectionCapabilities. Currently, it writes to static fields as if
the metadata being added was downleveled from decorators by tsickle.
The plan is for ngtsc to emit code which calls this function, passing
metadata on to the runtime for testing purposes. Calls to this function
would then be tree-shaken away for production bundles.
Testing strategy: proper operation of this function will be an integral
part of TestBed metadata overriding. Angular core tests will fail if this
is broken.
PR Close#26860
Misko Hevery
JoostK
Alex Rickabaugh