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Dependency injection not working in JIT due to unrecognized delegate constructors in downleveled ES5 output #38453
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Related code for the angular/packages/core/src/reflection/reflection_capabilities.ts Lines 23 to 28 in b071495
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…asses In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…asses In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…asses In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…asses In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…asses In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…asses In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…S2015 classes (#38463) Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: #38453. Fixes #38453. PR Close #38463
…asses In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453
…S2015 classes Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453.
…asses (#38500) In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes #38453 PR Close #38500
…S2015 classes (#38500) Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: #38453. Fixes #38453. PR Close #38500
…asses (angular#38463) In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453 PR Close angular#38463
…S2015 classes (angular#38463) Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453. PR Close angular#38463
…asses (angular#38463) In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453 PR Close angular#38463
…S2015 classes (angular#38463) Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453. PR Close angular#38463
…asses (angular#38463) In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output. With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output. For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked as expected but unveiled an issue in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities. In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the `ReflectionCapabilities`. The reflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such metadata can be either stored in static class properties like `ctorParameters` or within TypeScript's `design:params`. If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g. ```js function MatTable() { var _this = _super.apply(this, arguments) || this; ``` These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is **incorrectly** constructed without arguments. This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects it. e.g. ```js var _this = _super.apply(this, __spread(arguments)) || this; ``` This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit `super` call. ```js export class MatTable extends CdkTable { constructor() { super(...arguments); this.disabled = true; } } ``` If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with `--downlevelIteration`, TypeScript adjusts the `super` call so that the spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks. We fix this by expanding the rather naive RegExp patterns used for the reflection capabilities so that downleveled pass-through/delegate constructors are properly detected. There is a risk of a false-positive as we cannot detect whether `__spread` is actually the TypeScript spread helper, but given the reflection patterns already make lots of assumptions (e.g. that `super` is actually the superclass, we should be fine making this assumption too. The false-positive would not result in a broken app, but rather in unnecessary providers being injected (as a noop). Fixes angular#38453 PR Close angular#38463
…S2015 classes (angular#38463) Similarly to the change we landed in the `@angular/core` reflection capabilities, we need to make sure that ngcc can detect pass-through delegate constructors for classes using downleveled ES2015 output. More details can be found in the preceding commit, and in the issue outlining the problem: angular#38453. Fixes angular#38453. PR Close angular#38463
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🐞 bug report
@angular/core
Is this a regression?
Somewhat (given that we implemented ES5 downleveling as part of
ng_package
andng-packagr
v10)Description
In the Angular Package Format, we always shipped UMD bundles and previously even ES5 module output.
With V10, we removed the ES5 module output but kept the UMD ES5 output.
For this, we were able to remove our second TypeScript transpilation. Instead we started only
building ES2015 output and then downleveled it to ES5 UMD for the NPM packages. This worked
as expected but unveiled an issue in the
@angular/core
reflection capabilities.In JIT mode, Angular determines constructor parameters (for DI) using the
ReflectionCapabilities
. Thereflection capabilities basically read runtime metadata of classes to determine the DI parameters. Such
metadata can be either stored in static class properties like
ctorParameters
or within TypeScript'sdesign:params
.If Angular comes across a class that does not have any parameter metadata, it tries to detect if the
given class is actually delegating to an inherited class. It does this naively in JIT by checking if the
stringified class (function in ES5) matches a certain pattern. e.g.
These patterns are reluctant to changes of the class output. If a class is not recognized properly, the
DI parameters will be assumed empty and the class is incorrectly constructed without arguments.
This actually happened as part of v10 now. Since we downlevel ES2015 to ES5 (instead of previously
compiling sources directly to ES5), the class output changed slightly so that Angular no longer detects
it. e.g.
This happens because the ES2015 output will receive an auto-generated constructor if the class
defines class properties. This constructor is then already containing an explicit
super
call.If we then downlevel this file to ES5 with
--downlevelIteration
, TypeScript adjusts thesuper
call so thatthe spread operator is no longer used (not supported in ES5). The resulting super call is different to the
super call that would have been emitted if we would directly transpile to ES5. Ultimately, Angular no
longer detects such classes as having an delegate constructor -> and DI breaks.
🔬 Minimal Reproduction
https://stackblitz.com/angular/ggbbllnexbk?file=src%2Fapp%2Ftable-basic-example.ts
🔥 Exception or Error
Errors vary; usually it's an error about accessing a property of
undefined
. Whereundefined
is supposed to be an injected token (like
ElementRef
orNgZone
)Additional notes:
Potential solutions
--downlevelIteration
flag when downleveling.FYI: There were attempts in the past to fix this: #22642. it looks
like the issue didn't surface anymore at some point because we switched from downleveling (which we
did in the past at some point) to transpiling sources directly to ES5.
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