The types of directives and pipes that are used in a component's
template may be emitted into the partial declaration wrapped inside a
closure, which is needed when the type is declared later in the module.
This poses a problem for JIT compilation of partial declarations, as
this closure is indistinguishable from a class reference itself. To mark
the forward reference function as such, this commit changes the partial
declaration codegen to emit a `forwardRef` invocation wrapped around
the closure, which ensures that the closure is properly tagged as a
forward reference. This allows the forward reference to be treated as
such during JIT compilation.
PR Close#40117
This change allows the `AstObject` and `AstValue` types to provide
their represented type as a generic type argument, which is helpful
for documentation and discoverability purposes.
PR Close#39961
This introduces `AstObject.toMap` as an alternative to `AstObject
.toLiteral`, and adds `AstValue.getSymbolName` to query the symbol name
of a value using the encapsulated AST host.
PR Close#39518
This commit adds the basic building blocks for linking partial declarations.
In particular it provides a generic `FileLinker` class that delegates to
a set of (not yet implemented) `PartialLinker` classes.
The Babel plugin makes use of this `FileLinker` providing concrete classes
for `AstHost` and `AstFactory` that work with Babel AST. It can be created
with the following code:
```ts
const plugin = createEs2015LinkerPlugin({ /* options */ });
```
PR Close#39116
This commit adds the `AstHost` interface, along with implementations for
both Babel and TS.
It also implements the Babel vesion of the `AstFactory` interface, along
with a linker specific implementation of the `ImportGenerator` interface.
These classes will be used by the new "ng-linker" to transform prelinked
library code using a Babel plugin.
PR Close#38866
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