Converts the CLDR locale extraction script to a Bazel tool.
This allows us to generate locale files within Bazel, so that
locales don't need to live as sources within the repo. Also
it allows us to get rid of the legacy Gulp tooling.
The migration of the Gulp script to a Bazel tool involved the
following things:
1. Basic conversion of the `extract.js` script to TypeScript.
This mostly was about adding explicit types. e.g. adding `locale:
string` or `localeData: CldrStatic`.
2. Split-up into separate files. Instead of keeping the large
`extract.js` file, the tool has been split into separate files.
The logic remains the same, just that code is more readable and
maintainable.
3. Introduction of a new `index.ts` file that is the entry-point
for the Bazel tool. Previously the Gulp tool just generated
all locale files, the default locale and base currency files
at once. The new entry-point accepts a mode to be passed as
first process argument. based on that argument, either locales
are generated into a specified directory, or the default locale,
base currencies or closure file is generated.
This allows us to generate files with a Bazel genrule where
we simply run the tool and specify the outputs. Note: It's
necessary to have multiple modes because files live in separate
locations. e.g. the default locale in `@angular/core`, but the
rest in `@angular/common`.
4. Removal of the `cldr-data-downloader` and custom CLDR resolution
logic. Within Bazel we cannot run a downloader using network.
We switch this to something more Bazel idiomatic with better
caching. For this a new repository rule is introduced that
downloads the CLDR JSON repository and extracts it. Within
that rule we determine the supported locales so that they
can be used to pre-declare outputs (for the locales) within
Bazel analysis phase. This allows us to add the generated locale
files to a `ts_library` (which we want to have for better testing,
and consistent JS transpilation).
Note that the removal of `cldr-data-downloader` also requires us to
add logic for detecting locales without data. The CLDR data
downloader overwrote the `availableLocales.json` file with a file
that only lists locales that CLDR provides data for. We use the
official `availableLocales` file CLDR provides, but filter out
locales for which no data is available. This is needed until we
update to CLDR 39 where data is available for all such locales
listed in `availableLocales.json`.
PR Close#42230
In the past, the closure file has been generated so that all individual
locale files were imported individually. This resulted in a huge
slow-down in g3 due to the large amount of imports.
With 90bd984ff74f7605d7c08fd9fdbf610ba7fa67a5 this changed so that we
inline the locale data for the g3 closure locale file. Also the file
only contained data for locales being supported by Closure. For this a
list of locales has been extracted from Closure Compiler, as well as a
list of locale aliases.
This logic is prone to CLDR version updates, and also broke as part of
the Gulp -> Bazel migration where this logic has been slightly modified
but caused issues in G3. e.g. a locale `zh-Hant` was requested in g3,
but the locale data had the name of the alias locale that provided the
data at index zero (which represents the locale name). Note that the
locale names at index zero always could differentiate from the requested
`goog.LOCALE` due to the aliasing logic. This just didn't come up before.
We simplify this logic by generating a `goog.LOCALE` case for all
locales CLDR provides data for. We don't need to bother about aliasing
because with the refactorings to the CLDR generation tool, all locales
are built (which also captures the aliases), and we can generate the locale
file on the fly (which has not been done before).
PR Close#42230
The CLDR extraction tool has been reworked to run as part of Bazel.
This adds a initial readme explaining what the tool generates. It's
far from a detailed description but it can serve as foundation for more
detailed explanations.
PR Close#42230
Converts the CLDR locale extraction script to a Bazel tool.
This allows us to generate locale files within Bazel, so that
locales don't need to live as sources within the repo. Also
it allows us to get rid of the legacy Gulp tooling.
The migration of the Gulp script to a Bazel tool involved the
following things:
1. Basic conversion of the `extract.js` script to TypeScript.
This mostly was about adding explicit types. e.g. adding `locale:
string` or `localeData: CldrStatic`.
2. Split-up into separate files. Instead of keeping the large
`extract.js` file, the tool has been split into separate files.
The logic remains the same, just that code is more readable and
maintainable.
3. Introduction of a new `index.ts` file that is the entry-point
for the Bazel tool. Previously the Gulp tool just generated
all locale files, the default locale and base currency files
at once. The new entry-point accepts a mode to be passed as
first process argument. based on that argument, either locales
are generated into a specified directory, or the default locale,
base currencies or closure file is generated.
This allows us to generate files with a Bazel genrule where
we simply run the tool and specify the outputs. Note: It's
necessary to have multiple modes because files live in separate
locations. e.g. the default locale in `@angular/core`, but the
rest in `@angular/common`.
4. Removal of the `cldr-data-downloader` and custom CLDR resolution
logic. Within Bazel we cannot run a downloader using network.
We switch this to something more Bazel idiomatic with better
caching. For this a new repository rule is introduced that
downloads the CLDR JSON repository and extracts it. Within
that rule we determine the supported locales so that they
can be used to pre-declare outputs (for the locales) within
Bazel analysis phase. This allows us to add the generated locale
files to a `ts_library` (which we want to have for better testing,
and consistent JS transpilation).
Note that the removal of `cldr-data-downloader` also requires us to
add logic for detecting locales without data. The CLDR data
downloader overwrote the `availableLocales.json` file with a file
that only lists locales that CLDR provides data for. We use the
official `availableLocales` file CLDR provides, but filter out
locales for which no data is available. This is needed until we
update to CLDR 39 where data is available for all such locales
listed in `availableLocales.json`.
PR Close#42230
