Ion-test-driver issue.

[github-actions]

Ion-test-driver complained that behavior changed for the commit 7b702ad created by zslayton.
Refer to the workflow for more details.

[cheqianh]

Dig into the error log and reproduced locally with error message below,

cheqianh@ ion-js % npm run-script build-test-driver

......

Running "ts:test-driver" (ts) task
Compiling...
Cleared fast compile cache for target: test-driver
Using tsc v4.9.3
>> Warning: created test-driver/src/.baseDir.ts file because `outDir` was specified in the tsconfig.json, but not `rootDir`.  Add `rootDir`  in the `compilerOptions` section to fix this warning.
dist/commonjs/es6/dom/List.d.ts(60,114): error TS2526: A 'this' type is available only in a non-static member of a class or interface.
dist/commonjs/es6/dom/List.d.ts(83,72): error TS2552: Cannot find name 'FlatArray'. Did you mean 'Float32Array'?
dist/commonjs/es6/dom/SExpression.d.ts(60,114): error TS2526: A 'this' type is available only in a non-static member of a class or interface.
dist/commonjs/es6/dom/SExpression.d.ts(83,72): error TS2552: Cannot find name 'FlatArray'. Did you mean 'Float32Array'?

>> 4 non-emit-preventing type warnings  
>> Error: tsc return code: 2
Warning: Task "ts:test-driver" failed. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

cheqianh@ ion-js %

The error only happens for v5 develop branch because of above incompatible issue. The original build script doesn't work.

Link the PR here for reference - #733

[desaikd]

test-driver needed to be updated to es2020. This should have been fixed with #736. But there still error in the ion-test-driver PR run.

Here's the local log when running npm run-script build-test-driver:

❯ npm run-script build-test-driver

> ion-js@5.0.0-SNAPSHOT build-test-driver
> cd test-driver && npm run build


> test-driver@1.0.0 build
> grunt build:test-driver

Running "clean:test-driver" (clean) task
>> 1 path cleaned.

Running "ts:commonjs-es6" (ts) task
Compiling...
Cleared fast compile cache for target: commonjs-es6
Using tsc v3.9.10
>> Warning: created src/.baseDir.ts file because `outDir` was specified in the tsconfig.json, but not `rootDir`.  Add `rootDir`  in the `compilerOptions` section to fix this warning.



TypeScript compilation complete: 2.63s for 60 TypeScript files.

Running "ts:test-driver" (ts) task
Compiling...
Cleared fast compile cache for target: test-driver
Using tsc v3.9.10
>> Warning: created test-driver/src/.baseDir.ts file because `outDir` was specified in the tsconfig.json, but not `rootDir`.  Add `rootDir`  in the `compilerOptions` section to fix this warning.



TypeScript compilation complete: 1.41s for 10 TypeScript files.

Done.

From the local run it seems to work fine although it seems like the ion-test-driver job run uses an existing ion-js version for test-driver tasks, from the log:

/Users/runner/work/ion-js/ion-js/output/build/ion-js_0a91743 already present. Using existing source.

I am not sure why it uses the same version in job re-runs but that might be causing it to fail based on previous version.

Seems like the issue is with a particular version of node, the following version of node tooling leads to the error same as the Github Actions error:

node: 16.18.0
tsc: v4.9.3
npm: 8.19.2

New logs with the above node versions generated locally:

Running "ts:test-driver" (ts) task
Compiling...
Using tsc v4.9.3
>> Warning: created test-driver/src/.baseDir.ts file because `outDir` was specified in the tsconfig.json, but not `rootDir`.  Add `rootDir`  in the `compilerOptions` section to fix this warning.
dist/commonjs/es6/dom/List.d.ts(60,114): error TS2526: A 'this' type is available only in a non-static member of a class or interface.
dist/commonjs/es6/dom/SExpression.d.ts(60,114): error TS2526: A 'this' type is available only in a non-static member of a class or interface.

>> 2 non-emit-preventing type warnings  
>> Error: tsc return code: 2
Warning: Task "ts:test-driver" failed. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

[desaikd]

The issue was related to typescript latest version generating broken DTS files for mixed-in classes with functions that return this(reference issue: #747). This has been resolved by #748 which changes typescript version to 3.9.10 for generating correct DTS files. Once the issue is resolved within typescript we can upgrade to a latest version.