Currently it is impossible to determine the source of a binding that
generates `BoundAttribute` because all bound attributes generated from a
microsyntax expression share the same source span.
For example, in
```html
<div *ngFor="let item of items; trackBy: trackByFn"></div>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
source span for all `BoundAttribute`s generated from microsyntax
```
the `BoundAttribute` for both `ngForOf` and `ngForTrackBy`
share the same source span.
A lot of hacks were necessary in View Engine language service to work
around this limitation. It was done by inspecting the whole source span
then figuring out the relative position of the cursor.
With this change, we introduce a flag to set the binding span as the
source span of the `ParsedProperty` in Ivy AST.
This flag is needed so that we don't have to change VE ASTs.
Note that in the binding parser, we already set `bindingSpan` as the
source span for a `ParsedVariable`, and `keySpan` as the source span for
a literal attribute. This change makes the Ivy AST more consistent by
propagating the binding span to `ParsedProperty` as well.
PR Close#39036
This commit updates the symbols in the TemplateTypeCheck API and methods
for retrieving them:
* Include `isComponent` and `selector` for directives so callers can determine which
attributes on an element map to the matched directives.
* Add a new `TextAttributeSymbol` and return this when requesting a symbol for a `TextAttribute`.
* When requesting a symbol for `PropertyWrite` and `MethodCall`, use the
`nameSpan` to retrieve symbols.
* Add fix to retrieve generic directives attached to elements/templates.
PR Close#38844
Now that we have `keySpan` for `BoundAttribute` (implemented in
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/38898) we could do the same
for `Variable`.
This would allow us to distinguish the LHS and RHS from the whole source
span.
PR Close#38965
Though we currently have the knowledge of where the `key` for an
attribute binding appears during parsing, we do not propagate this
information to the output AST. This means that once we produce the
template AST, we have no way of mapping a template position to the key
span alone. The best we can currently do is map back to the
`sourceSpan`. This presents problems downstream, specifically for the
language service, where we cannot provide correct information about a
position in a template because the AST is not granular enough.
PR Close#38898
Using an interface makes the code cleaner and more readable.
This change also adds the `range` property to the type to be used
for source-mapping.
PR Close#38775
The current tests print out the span numbers, which are really difficult to verify
since it requires manually going to the template string and looking at what
characters appear within those indexes. The better humanization would be
to use the toString method of the spans, which prints the span text itself
PR Close#38902
Recent work on compiler internals in #38539 led to an unexpected failure,
where a pipe used exclusively inside of an ICU would no longer be
emitted into the compilation output. This caused runtime errors due to
missing pipes.
The issue occurred because the change in #38539 would determine the set
of used pipes up-front, independent from the template compilation using
the `R3TargetBinder`. However, `R3TargetBinder` did not consider
expressions within ICUs, so any pipe usages within those expressions
would not be detected. This fix unblocks #38539 and also concerns
upcoming linker work, given that prelink compilations would not go
through full template compilation but only `R3TargetBinder`.
PR Close#38810
In a microsyntax expressions, some attributes are not bound after
desugaring. For example,
```html
<div *ngFor="let item of items">
</div>
```
gets desugared to
```html
<ng-template ngFor let-items [ngForOf]="items">
</ngtemplate>
```
In this case, `ngFor` should be a literal attribute with no RHS value.
Therefore, its source span should be just the `keySpan` and not the
source span of the original template node.
This allows language service to precisely pinpoint different spans in a
microsyntax to provide accurate information.
PR Close#38766
The `MessagePiece` and derived classes, `LiteralPiece` and `PlaceholderPiece`
need to be referenced in the `LocalizedString` output AST class, so that we
can render the source-spans of each piece.
PR Close#38645
The `R3TargetBinder` accepts an interface for directive metadata which
declares types for `input` and `output` objects. These types convey the
mapping between the property names for an input or output and the
corresponding property name on the component class. Due to
`R3TargetBinder`'s requirements, this mapping was specified with property
names as keys and field names as values.
However, because of duck typing, this interface was accidentally satisifed
by the opposite mapping, of field names to property names, that was produced
in other parts of the compiler. This form more naturally represents the data
model for inputs.
Rather than accept the field -> property mapping and invert it, this commit
introduces a new abstraction for such mappings which is bidirectional,
eliminating the ambiguous plain object type. This mapping uses new,
unambiguous terminology ("class property name" and "binding property name")
and can be used to satisfy both the needs of the binder as well as those of
the template type-checker (field -> property).
A new test ensures that the input/output metadata produced by the compiler
during analysis is directly compatible with the binder via this unambiguous
new interface.
PR Close#38685
Previously, the compiler was not able to display template parsing errors as
true `ts.Diagnostic`s that point inside the template. Instead, it would
throw an actual `Error`, and "crash" with a stack trace containing the
template errors.
Not only is this a poor user experience, but it causes the Language Service
to also crash as the user is editing a template (in actuality the LS has to
work around this bug).
With this commit, such parsing errors are converted to true template
diagnostics with appropriate span information to be displayed contextually
along with all other diagnostics. This majorly improves the user experience
and unblocks the Language Service from having to deal with the compiler
"crashing" to report errors.
PR Close#38576
Previously, the `sourceSpan` and `startSourceSpan` were the same
object, which meant that you had the following situation:
```
element = <div>some content</div>
sourceSpan = <div>
startSourceSpan = <div>
endSourceSpan = </div>
```
This made `sourceSpan` redundant and meant that if you
wanted a span for the whole element including its content
and closing tag, it had to be computed.
Now `sourceSpan` is separated from `startSourceSpan`
resulting in:
```
element = <div>some content</div>
sourceSpan = <div>some content</div>
startSourceSpan = <div>
endSourceSpan = </div>
```
PR Close#38581
ASTs for property read and method calls contain information about
the entire span of the expression, including its receiver. Use cases
like a language service and compile error messages may be more
interested in the span of the direct identifier for which the
expression is constructed (i.e. an accessed property). To support this,
this commit adds a `nameSpan` property on
- `PropertyRead`s
- `SafePropertyRead`s
- `PropertyWrite`s
- `MethodCall`s
- `SafeMethodCall`s
The `nameSpan` property already existed for `BindingPipe`s.
This commit also updates usages of these expressions' `sourceSpan`s in
Ngtsc and the langauge service to use `nameSpan`s where appropriate.
PR Close#36826
This commit propagates the correct value span in an ExpressionBinding of
a microsyntax expression to ParsedProperty, which in turn porpagates the
span to the template ASTs (both VE and Ivy).
PR Close#36133
This commit propagates the `sourceSpan` and `valueSpan` of a `VariableBinding`
in a microsyntax expression to `ParsedVariable`, and subsequently to
View Engine Variable AST and Ivy Variable AST.
Note that this commit does not propagate the `keySpan`, because it involves
significant changes to the template AST.
PR Close#36047
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
The only test case for `ngFor` exercises an incorrect usage which causes
two bound attributes to be generated . This commit adds a canonical and
correct usage to show the difference between the two.
PR Close#35671
Currently, would-be binding attributes that are missing binding names
are not parsed as bindings, and fall through as regular attributes. In
some cases, this can lead to a runtime error; trying to assign `#` as a
DOM attribute in an element like in `<div #></div>` fails because `#` is
not a valid attribute name.
Attributes composed of binding prefixes but not defining a binding
should be considered invalid, as this almost certainly indicates an
unintentional elision of a binding by the developer. This commit
introduces error reporting for attributes with a binding name prefix but
no actual binding name.
Closes https://github.com/angular/vscode-ng-language-service/issues/293.
PR Close#34595
NOTE: This change must be reverted with previous deletes so that it code remains in build-able state.
This change deletes old styling code and replaces it with a simplified styling algorithm.
The mental model for the new algorithm is:
- Create a linked list of styling bindings in the order of priority. All styling bindings ere executed in compiled order and than a linked list of bindings is created in priority order.
- Flush the style bindings at the end of `advance()` instruction. This implies that there are two flush events. One at the end of template `advance` instruction in the template. Second one at the end of `hostBindings` `advance` instruction when processing host bindings (if any).
- Each binding instructions effectively updates the string to represent the string at that location. Because most of the bindings are additive, this is a cheap strategy in most cases. In rare cases the strategy requires removing tokens from the styling up to this point. (We expect that to be rare case)S Because, the bindings are presorted in the order of priority, it is safe to resume the processing of the concatenated string from the last change binding.
PR Close#34616
The major one that affects the angular repo is the removal of the bootstrap attribute in nodejs_binary, nodejs_test and jasmine_node_test in favor of using templated_args --node_options=--require=/path/to/script. The side-effect of this is that the bootstrap script does not get the require.resolve patches with explicitly loading the targets _loader.js file.
PR Close#34736
The major one that affects the angular repo is the removal of the bootstrap attribute in nodejs_binary, nodejs_test and jasmine_node_test in favor of using templated_args --node_options=--require=/path/to/script. The side-effect of this is that the bootstrap script does not get the require.resolve patches with explicitly loading the targets _loader.js file.
PR Close#34589
Previously, bound events were incorrectly bound to directives with
inputs matching the bound event attribute. This fixes that so bound
events can only be bound to directives with matching outputs.
Adds tests for all kinds of directive matching on bound attributes.
PR Close#31938
Expressions in an inline template binding are improperly recorded as
spaning an offset calculated from the start of the template binding
attribute key, whereas they should be calculated from the start of the
attribute value, which contains the actual binding AST.
PR Close#31813
It is possible for HTML formatters to add whitespace
around the content of `i18n` attribute values. This can
make the meaning and custom ids brittle to simple
whitespace formatting.
This commit ensures that the metadata string extracted
from HTML `i18n` attributes is trimmed before being parsed
into meaning, description and custom id.
PR Close#34154
Since i18n messages are mapped to `$localize` tagged template strings,
the "raw" version must be properly escaped. Otherwise TS will throw an
error such as:
```
Error: Debug Failure. False expression: Expected argument 'text' to be the normalized (i.e. 'cooked') version of argument 'rawText'.
```
This commit ensures that we properly escape these raw strings before creating
TS AST nodes from them.
PR Close#33820
The `:` char is used as a metadata marker in `$localize` messages.
If this char appears in the metadata it must be escaped, as `\:`.
Previously, although the `:` char was being escaped, the TS AST
being generated was not correct and so it was being output double
escaped, which meant that it appeared in the rendered message.
As of TS 3.6.2 the "raw" string can be specified when creating tagged
template AST nodes, so it is possible to correct this.
PR Close#33820
Prior to this change, namespaced elements such as SVG elements would not
participate correctly in directive matching as their namespace was not
ignored, which was the case with the View Engine compiler. This led to
incorrect behavior at runtime and template type checking.
This commit resolved the issue by ignoring the namespace of elements and
attributes like they were in View Engine.
Fixes#32061
PR Close#33555
When computing i18n messages for templates there are two passes.
This is because messages must be computed before any whitespace
is removed. Then on a second pass, the messages must be recreated
but reusing the message ids from the first pass.
Previously ICUs were losing their legacy ids that had been computed
via the first pass. This commit fixes that by keeping track of the
message from the first pass (`previousMessage`) for ICU placeholder
nodes.
// FW-1637
PR Close#33318
Prior to this commit, the absolute spans (relative to template source
file rather than the start of an expression) of expressions in a
template attribute like `*ngIf` were generated incorrectly, equating to
the relative spans.
This fixes the bug by passing an `absoluteOffset` parameter when parsing
template bindings.
Through some levels of indirection, this is required for the Language
Service to support text replacement in
https://github.com/angular/angular/pull/33091.
PR Close#33189
Currently, the spans of expressions are recorded only relative to the
template node that they reside in, not their source file.
Introduce a `sourceSpan` property on expression ASTs that records the
location of an expression relative to the entire source code file that
it is in. This may allow for reducing duplication of effort in
ngtsc/typecheck/src/diagnostics later on as well.
Child of #31898
PR Close#31897
In an attempt to be compatible with previous translation files
the Angular compiler was generating instructions that always
included the message id. This was because it was not possible
to accurately re-generate the id from the calls to `$localize()` alone.
In line with https://hackmd.io/EQF4_-atSXK4XWg8eAha2g this
commit changes the compiler so that it only renders ids if they are
"custom" ones provided by the template author.
NOTE:
When translating messages generated by the Angular compiler
from i18n tags in templates, the `$localize.translate()` function
will compute message ids, if no custom id is provided, using a
common digest function that only relies upon the information
available in the `$localize()` calls.
This computed message id will not be the same as the message
ids stored in legacy translation files. Such files will need to be
migrated to use the new common digest function.
This only affects developers who have been trialling `$localize`, have
been calling `loadTranslations()`, and are not exclusively using custom
ids in their templates.
PR Close#32867
Metadata blocks are delimited by colons. Previously the code naively just
looked for the next colon in the string as the end marker.
This commit supports escaping colons within the metadata content.
The Angular compiler has been updated to add escaping as required.
PR Close#32867
Previously the metadata and placeholder blocks were serialized in
a variety of places. Moreover the code for creating the `LocalizedString`
AST node was doing serialization, which break the separation of concerns.
Now this is all done by the code that renders the AST and is refactored into
helper functions to avoid repeating the behaviour.
PR Close#32867
Now that the `$localize` translations are `MessageId` based the
compiler must render `MessageId`s in its generated `$localize` code.
This is because the `MessageId` used by the compiler is computed
from information that does not get passed through to the `$localize`
tagged string.
For example, the generated code for the following template
```html
<div id="static" i18n-title="m|d" title="introduction"></div>
```
will contain these localization statements
```ts
if (ngI18nClosureMode) {
/**
* @desc d
* @meaning m
*/
const MSG_EXTERNAL_8809028065680254561$$APP_SPEC_TS_1 = goog.getMsg("introduction");
I18N_1 = MSG_EXTERNAL_8809028065680254561$$APP_SPEC_TS_1;
}
else {
I18N_1 = $localize \`:m|d@@8809028065680254561:introduction\`;
}
```
Since `$localize` is not able to accurately regenerate the source-message
(and so the `MessageId`) from the generated code, it must rely upon the
`MessageId` being provided explicitly in the generated code.
The compiler now prepends all localized messages with a "metadata block"
containing the id (and the meaning and description if defined).
Note that this metadata block will also allow translation file extraction
from the compiled code - rather than relying on the legacy ViewEngine
extraction code. (This will be implemented post-v9).
Although these metadata blocks add to the initial code size, compile-time
inlining will completely remove these strings and so will not impact on
production bundle size.
PR Close#32594
The `goog.getMsg()` function requires placeholder names to be camelCased.
This is not the case for `$localize`. Here placeholder names need
match what is serialized to translation files.
Specifically such placeholder names keep their casing but have all characters
that are not in `a-z`, `A-Z`, `0-9` and `_` converted to `_`.
PR Close#32509
This commit changes the Angular compiler (ivy-only) to generate `$localize`
tagged strings for component templates that use `i18n` attributes.
BREAKING CHANGE
Since `$localize` is a global function, it must be included in any applications
that use i18n. This is achieved by importing the `@angular/localize` package
into an appropriate bundle, where it will be executed before the renderer
needs to call `$localize`. For CLI based projects, this is best done in
the `polyfills.ts` file.
```ts
import '@angular/localize';
```
For non-CLI applications this could be added as a script to the index.html
file or another suitable script file.
PR Close#31609
Keen Yee Liau
Andrew Scott
Keen Yee Liau
Pete Bacon Darwin
JoostK
Alex Rickabaugh
Joey Perrott
Ayaz Hafiz
Miško Hevery
Greg Magolan