So-called "Quote expressions" were added in b6ec2387b3
to support foreign syntax to be used in Angular templates, requiring a custom
template transform to convert them somehow during compilation. Support for template
transforms was originally implemented in a43ed79ee7 but
has since been dropped. Since the compiler is not public API the quote expressions
should not have any usages anymore. Removing support for them can improve error
reporting for expressions that contain a `:`, e.g. binding to a URL without quotes:
```html
<a [href]="http://google.com">Click me</a>
```
Here, `http` would be parsed as foreign "http" quote expression with `//google.com` as
value, later reporting the error "Quotes are not supported for evaluation!" because
there was no template transform to convert that code.
Closes#40398
PR Close#44915
Currently the compiler has three different classes to represent a "call to something":
1. `MethodCall` - `foo.bar()`
2. `SafeMethodCall` - `foo?.bar()`.
3. `FunctionCall` - Any calls that don't fit into the first two classes. E.g. `foo.bar()()`.
There are a few problems with this approach:
1. It is inconistent with the TypeScript AST which only has one node: `CallExpression`.
2. It means that we have to maintain more code, because the various parts of the compiler need to know about three node types.
3. It doesn't allow us to easily implement some new JS features like safe calls (e.g. `foo.bar?.())`).
These changes rework the compiler so that it produces only one node: `Call`. The new node behaves similarly to the TypeScript `CallExpression` whose `receiver` can be any expression.
There was a similar situation in the output AST where we had an `InvokeMethodExpression` and `InvokeFunctionExpression`. I've combined both of them into `InvokeFunctionExpression`.
PR Close#42882
Currently we support safe property (`a?.b`) and method (`a?.b()`) accesses, but we don't handle safe keyed reads (`a?.[0]`) which is inconsistent. These changes expand the compiler in order to support safe key read expressions as well.
PR Close#41911
Prior to this change, expressions within ICUs would have a source span
corresponding with the whole ICU. This commit narrows down the source
spans of these expressions to the exact location in the source file, as
a prerequisite for reporting type check errors within these expressions.
PR Close#39072
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
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
