This configures whether or not to preserve whitespace content when extracting messages from Angular templates in the legacy (View Engine) extraction pipeline.
This includes several bug fixes which unfortunately cannot be landed without changing message IDs in a breaking fashion and are necessary to properly trim whitespace. Instead these bug fixes are included only when the new flag is disabled.
PR Close#56507
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
Enables the new `@` block syntax by default by removing the `enabledBlockTypes` flags. There are still some internal flags that allow special use cases to opt out of the block syntax, like during XML parsing and when compiling older libraries (see #51979).
PR Close#51994
Switches the syntax for blocks from `{#block}{/block}` to `@block {}` based on the feedback from the community.
Read more about the decision-making process in our blog: https://blog.angular.io/meet-angulars-new-control-flow-a02c6eee7843
The existing block types changed in the following ways:
**Conditional blocks:**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#if cond}
Main content
{:else if otherCond}
Else if content
{:else}
Else content
{/if}
<!-- After -->
@if (cond) {
Main content
} @else if (otherCond) {
Else if content
} @else {
Else content
}
```
**Deferred blocks**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#defer when isLoaded}
Main content
{:loading} Loading...
{:placeholder} <icon>pending</icon>
{:error} Failed to load
{/defer}
<!-- After -->
@defer (when isLoaded) {
Main content
} @loading {
Loading...
} @placeholder {
<icon>pending</icon>
} @error {
Failed to load
}
```
**Switch blocks:**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#switch value}
{:case 1}
One
{:case 2}
Two
{:default}
Default
{/switch}
<!-- After -->
@switch (value) {
@case (1) {
One
}
@case (2) {
Two
}
@default {
Default
}
}
```
**For loops**
```html
<!-- Before -->
{#for item of items; track item}
{{item.name}}
{:empty} No items
{/for}
<!-- After -->
@for (item of items; track item) {
{{item.name}}
} @empty {
No items
}
```
PR Close#51891
⚠️Disclaimer⚠️ this PR implements syntax that is still in an open RFC. It will be adjusted once the RFC is closed.
These changes implement the `BlockGroup` and `Block` AST nodes that will then be used to generate instructions based on the new syntax. A `BlockGroup` is a container for `Block` instances. The first block of a block is always implicit and required while any subsequent blocks are optional.
PR Close#50953
When it was tokenized, text content is split into parts that can include
interpolations and encoded entities tokens.
To make this information available to downstream processing, this commit
adds these tokens to the `Text` AST nodes, with suitable processing.
PR Close#43132
When it was tokenized, text content is split into parts that can include
interpolations and encoded entities tokens.
To make this information available to downstream processing, this commit
adds these tokens to the `Text` AST nodes, with suitable processing.
PR Close#42062
Similar to interpolation, we do not want to completely remove whitespace
nodes that are siblings of an expansion.
For example, the following template
```html
<div>
<strong>items left<strong> {count, plural, =1 {item} other {items}}
</div>
```
was being collapsed to
```html
<div><strong>items left<strong>{count, plural, =1 {item} other {items}}</div>
```
which results in the text looking like
```
items left4
```
instead it should be collapsed to
```html
<div><strong>items left<strong> {count, plural, =1 {item} other {items}}</div>
```
which results in the text looking like
```
items left 4
```
---
**Analysis of the code and manual testing has shown that this does not cause
the generated ids to change, so there is no breaking change here.**
PR Close#31962
