A lot of our tests are wrapped in `{}` which serves no purpose, aside from increasing the nesting level and, in some cases, causing confusion. The braces appear to be a leftover from a time when all tests were wrapped in a `function main() {}`. The function declaration was removed in #21053, but the braces remained, presumably because it was easier to search&replace for `function main()`, but not to remove the braces at the same time.
PR Close#52239
According to the HTML specification most attributes are defined as strings, however some can be interpreted as different types like booleans or numbers. [In the HTML standard](https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#boolean-attributes), boolean attributes are considered `true` if they are present on a DOM node and `false` if they are omitted. Common examples of boolean attributes are `disabled` on interactive elements like `<button>` or `checked` on `<input type="checkbox">`. Another example of an attribute that is defined as a string, but interpreted as a different type is the `value` attribute of `<input type="number">` which logs a warning and ignores the value if it can't be parsed as a number.
Historically, authoring Angular inputs that match the native behavior in a type-safe way has been difficult for developers, because Angular interprets all static attributes as strings. While some recent TypeScript versions made this easier by allowing setters and getters to have different types, supporting this pattern still requires a lot of boilerplate and additional properties to be declared. For example, currently developers have to write something like this to have a `disabled` input that behaves like the native one:
```typescript
import {Directive, Input} from '@angular/core';
@Directive({selector: 'mat-checkbox'})
export class MatCheckbox {
@Input()
get disabled() {
return this._disabled;
}
set disabled(value: any) {
this._disabled = typeof value === 'boolean' ? value : (value != null && value !== 'false');
}
private _disabled = false;
}
```
This feature aims to address the issue by introducing a `transform` property on inputs. If an input has a `transform` function, any values set through the template will be passed through the function before being assigned to the directive instance. The example from above can be rewritten to the following:
```typescript
import {Directive, Input, booleanAttribute} from '@angular/core';
@Directive({selector: 'mat-checkbox'})
export class MatCheckbox {
@Input({transform: booleanAttribute}) disabled: boolean = false;
}
```
These changes also add the `booleanAttribute` and `numberAttribute` utilities to `@angular/core` since they're common enough to be useful for most projects.
Fixes#8968.
Fixes#14761.
PR Close#50420
The private util `isObservable` was actually just testing the same thing as`isSubscribable()`. As the implementation is closer to the function's name, let's only keep ``isSubscribable`.
PR Close#49295
This commit removes a bunch of methodss from `ReflectionCapabilities` as they
have gone unused. This also removes `Reflector` as it doesn't serve any purpose
and it is not exposed as public API, so can be safely removed.
PR Close#45335
BREAKING CHANGE: Forms [email] input coercion
Forms [email] input value will be considered as true if it is defined with any value rather
than false and 'false'.
PR Close#42803
This is a follow up fix for
894286dd0c.
It turns out that comments can be closed in several ways:
- `<!-->`
- `<!-- -->`
- `<!-- --!>`
All of the above are valid ways to close comment per:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#comments
The new fix surrounds `<` and `>` with zero width space so that it
renders in the same way, but it prevents the comment to be closed eagerly.
PR Close#40525
This is a follow up fix for
894286dd0c.
It turns out that comments can be closed in several ways:
- `<!-->`
- `<!-- -->`
- `<!-- --!>`
All of the above are valid ways to close comment per:
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/syntax.html#comments
The new fix surrounds `<` and `>` with zero width space so that it
renders in the same way, but it prevents the comment to be closed eagerly.
PR Close#40525
Escape the content of the strings so that it can be safely inserted into a comment node.
The issue is that HTML does not specify any way to escape comment end text inside the comment.
`<!-- The way you close a comment is with "-->". -->`. Above the `"-->"` is meant to be text
not an end to the comment. This can be created programmatically through DOM APIs.
```
div.innerHTML = div.innerHTML
```
One would expect that the above code would be safe to do, but it turns out that because comment
text is not escaped, the comment may contain text which will prematurely close the comment
opening up the application for XSS attack. (In SSR we programmatically create comment nodes which
may contain such text and expect them to be safe.)
This function escapes the comment text by looking for the closing char sequence `-->` and replace
it with `-_-_>` where the `_` is a zero width space `\u200B`. The result is that if a comment
contains `-->` text it will render normally but it will not cause the HTML parser to close the
comment.
PR Close#40136
This change introduces several functions for manipulating items in an array in an efficient (binary search) way.
- `arraySplice` a faster version of `Array.splice()`.
- `arrayInsert` a faster version of `Array.splice(index, 0, value)`.
- `arrayInsert2` a faster version of `Array.splice(index, 0, value1, value2)`.
- `arrayInsertSorted` a way to insert a value into sorted list.
- `arrayRemoveSorted` a way to remove a value from a sorted list.
- `arrayIndexOfSorted` a way to find a value in a sorted list.
- `ArrayMap` Efficient implementation of `Map` as an `Array`.
- `arrayMapSet`, `arrayMapGet`, `arrayMapIndexOf`, and `arrayMapDelete` for manipulating `ArrayMap`s.
PR Close#34804
The `computeStaticStyling` will be used for computing static styling value during `firstCreatePass`.
The function takes into account static styling from the template as well as from the host bindings. The host bindings need to be merged in front of the template so that they have the correct priority.
PR Closes#34418
This commit removes code duplication where we had 2 versions of a
`flatten` utility. Moreover this change results in queries using
a non-recursive version of `flatten` which should result in a better
performance of query refresh operations.
PR Close#29547
`main()` function used to be needed to support dart, since dart
Does not allow top level statements. Since we no longer use dart
The need for `main()` has been removed.
In preparation for `Basel` and standardized way of running tests
we are removing `main()`
PR Close#21053
BREAKING CHANGE
It is no longer possible to declare classes in this format.
```
Component({...}).
Class({
constructor: function() {...}
})
```
This format would only work with JIT and with ES5. This mode doesn’t
allow build tools like Webpack to process and optimize the code, which
results in prohibitively large bundles. We are removing this API
because we are trying to ensure that everyone is on the fast path by
default, and it is not possible to get on the fast path using the ES5
DSL. The replacement is to use TypeScript and `@Decorator` format.
```
@Component({...})
class {
constructor() {...}
}
```
This is required as e.g. `token` from `@Inject` is
accessed in string form via makeParamDecorator
but as a property in the `ReflectiveInjector`.
Closes#16889 as this is a more general fix.
