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String literal types #5185

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Make string literals valid constituent types nodes in the parser.
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Make string literals valid types in type lists.
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67 changes: 49 additions & 18 deletions src/compiler/checker.ts
Expand Up @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ namespace ts {
symbolToString,
getAugmentedPropertiesOfType,
getRootSymbols,
getContextualType,
getContextualType: getApparentTypeOfContextualType,
getFullyQualifiedName,
getResolvedSignature,
getConstantValue,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1623,7 +1623,7 @@ namespace ts {
writeAnonymousType(<ObjectType>type, flags);
}
else if (type.flags & TypeFlags.StringLiteral) {
writer.writeStringLiteral((<StringLiteralType>type).text);
writer.writeStringLiteral(`"${escapeString((<StringLiteralType>type).text)}"`);
}
else {
// Should never get here
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4353,12 +4353,13 @@ namespace ts {
}

function getStringLiteralType(node: StringLiteral): StringLiteralType {
if (hasProperty(stringLiteralTypes, node.text)) {
return stringLiteralTypes[node.text];
const text = node.text;
if (hasProperty(stringLiteralTypes, text)) {
return stringLiteralTypes[text];
}

let type = stringLiteralTypes[node.text] = <StringLiteralType>createType(TypeFlags.StringLiteral);
type.text = getTextOfNode(node);
let type = stringLiteralTypes[text] = <StringLiteralType>createType(TypeFlags.StringLiteral);
type.text = text;
return type;
}

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -6877,7 +6878,7 @@ namespace ts {
else if (operator === SyntaxKind.BarBarToken) {
// When an || expression has a contextual type, the operands are contextually typed by that type. When an ||
// expression has no contextual type, the right operand is contextually typed by the type of the left operand.
let type = getContextualType(binaryExpression);
let type = getApparentTypeOfContextualType(binaryExpression);
if (!type && node === binaryExpression.right) {
type = checkExpression(binaryExpression.left);
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -6949,7 +6950,7 @@ namespace ts {

function getContextualTypeForObjectLiteralElement(element: ObjectLiteralElement) {
let objectLiteral = <ObjectLiteralExpression>element.parent;
let type = getContextualType(objectLiteral);
let type = getApparentTypeOfContextualType(objectLiteral);
if (type) {
if (!hasDynamicName(element)) {
// For a (non-symbol) computed property, there is no reason to look up the name
Expand All @@ -6975,7 +6976,7 @@ namespace ts {
// type of T.
function getContextualTypeForElementExpression(node: Expression): Type {
let arrayLiteral = <ArrayLiteralExpression>node.parent;
let type = getContextualType(arrayLiteral);
let type = getApparentTypeOfContextualType(arrayLiteral);
if (type) {
let index = indexOf(arrayLiteral.elements, node);
return getTypeOfPropertyOfContextualType(type, "" + index)
Expand All @@ -6988,7 +6989,7 @@ namespace ts {
// In a contextually typed conditional expression, the true/false expressions are contextually typed by the same type.
function getContextualTypeForConditionalOperand(node: Expression): Type {
let conditional = <ConditionalExpression>node.parent;
return node === conditional.whenTrue || node === conditional.whenFalse ? getContextualType(conditional) : undefined;
return node === conditional.whenTrue || node === conditional.whenFalse ? getApparentTypeOfContextualType(conditional) : undefined;
}

function getContextualTypeForJsxExpression(expr: JsxExpression|JsxSpreadAttribute): Type {
Expand All @@ -7013,12 +7014,22 @@ namespace ts {

// Return the contextual type for a given expression node. During overload resolution, a contextual type may temporarily
// be "pushed" onto a node using the contextualType property.
function getContextualType(node: Expression): Type {
let type = getContextualTypeWorker(node);
function getApparentTypeOfContextualType(node: Expression): Type {
let type = getContextualType(node);
return type && getApparentType(type);
}

function getContextualTypeWorker(node: Expression): Type {
/**
* Woah! Do you really want to use this function?
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Yeah... that was why I named it Worker...

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Ah, that makes sense, though it feels strange to get the actual contextual type when its name is worker. If you think it'd be better to rename it back to worker, I can do that.

I also suspect that we could shave off some time by using this function (instead of getApparentTypeOfContextualType) for array literals as well. I'll probably do it as part of another change.

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The idea (however it is achieved) is to make the apparent type the default behavior when you don't specify anything. Getting the contextual type without its apparent type is quite an odd thing to do, so I prefer that to be the marked form. You can also call them getContextualType and getContextualTypeWithoutApparentType.

*
* Unless you're trying to get the *non-apparent* type for a value-literal type,
* you probably meant to use 'getApparentTypeOfContextualType'.
* Otherwise this is slightly less useful.
*
* @param node the expression whose contextual type will be returned.
* @returns the contextual type of an expression.
*/
function getContextualType(node: Expression): Type {
if (isInsideWithStatementBody(node)) {
// We cannot answer semantic questions within a with block, do not proceed any further
return undefined;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -7057,7 +7068,7 @@ namespace ts {
Debug.assert(parent.parent.kind === SyntaxKind.TemplateExpression);
return getContextualTypeForSubstitutionExpression(<TemplateExpression>parent.parent, node);
case SyntaxKind.ParenthesizedExpression:
return getContextualType(<ParenthesizedExpression>parent);
return getApparentTypeOfContextualType(<ParenthesizedExpression>parent);
case SyntaxKind.JsxExpression:
case SyntaxKind.JsxSpreadAttribute:
return getContextualTypeForJsxExpression(<JsxExpression>parent);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -7097,7 +7108,7 @@ namespace ts {
Debug.assert(node.kind !== SyntaxKind.MethodDeclaration || isObjectLiteralMethod(node));
let type = isObjectLiteralMethod(node)
? getContextualTypeForObjectLiteralMethod(node)
: getContextualType(node);
: getApparentTypeOfContextualType(node);
if (!type) {
return undefined;
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -7227,7 +7238,7 @@ namespace ts {
type.pattern = node;
return type;
}
let contextualType = getContextualType(node);
let contextualType = getApparentTypeOfContextualType(node);
if (contextualType && contextualTypeIsTupleLikeType(contextualType)) {
let pattern = contextualType.pattern;
// If array literal is contextually typed by a binding pattern or an assignment pattern, pad the resulting
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -7318,7 +7329,7 @@ namespace ts {

let propertiesTable: SymbolTable = {};
let propertiesArray: Symbol[] = [];
let contextualType = getContextualType(node);
let contextualType = getApparentTypeOfContextualType(node);
let contextualTypeHasPattern = contextualType && contextualType.pattern &&
(contextualType.pattern.kind === SyntaxKind.ObjectBindingPattern || contextualType.pattern.kind === SyntaxKind.ObjectLiteralExpression);
let inDestructuringPattern = isAssignmentTarget(node);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -10273,6 +10284,25 @@ namespace ts {
return getUnionType([type1, type2]);
}

function checkStringLiteralExpression(node: LiteralExpression) {
// TODO (drosen): Do we want to apply the same approach to no-sub template literals?
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Should we resolve this TODO?

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I'm choosing not to apply the same approach because we currently don't treat NoSubTemplates the same as strings in places like string indexing and overload resolution. I think it would be weird to treat them the same way here but not elsewhere.

For the record, I would prefer if we treated them the same elsewhere, but I don't want to conflate that with this PR.

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Alright.


let contextualType = getContextualType(node);
if (contextualType) {
if (contextualType.flags & TypeFlags.Union) {
for (const type of (<UnionType>contextualType).types) {
if (type.flags & TypeFlags.StringLiteral && (<StringLiteralType>type).text === node.text) {
return type;
}
}
}
else if (contextualType.flags & TypeFlags.StringLiteral && (<StringLiteralType>contextualType).text === node.text) {
return contextualType;
}
}
return stringType;
}

function checkTemplateExpression(node: TemplateExpression): Type {
// We just want to check each expressions, but we are unconcerned with
// the type of each expression, as any value may be coerced into a string.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -10332,7 +10362,7 @@ namespace ts {
if (isInferentialContext(contextualMapper)) {
let signature = getSingleCallSignature(type);
if (signature && signature.typeParameters) {
let contextualType = getContextualType(<Expression>node);
let contextualType = getApparentTypeOfContextualType(<Expression>node);
if (contextualType) {
let contextualSignature = getSingleCallSignature(contextualType);
if (contextualSignature && !contextualSignature.typeParameters) {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -10403,6 +10433,7 @@ namespace ts {
case SyntaxKind.TemplateExpression:
return checkTemplateExpression(<TemplateExpression>node);
case SyntaxKind.StringLiteral:
return checkStringLiteralExpression(<LiteralExpression>node);
case SyntaxKind.NoSubstitutionTemplateLiteral:
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Not that I want to sound negative but for every string literal, this gets called.

It's a huge slowdown.

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What kind of numbers are you seeing (and on what codebase)?

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If you consider that every string has on average 5 bytes, you're making 1-5 integer checks for every comparison:

I think the VM already optimize for this?
http://jsperf.com/string-vs-int-comparison-1

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It's useless to speculate about what's fast and what's not. Measure it.

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Meh. Measure it in 1 version of Chrome, it changes in the next. You measure it, I've said what I had to say.

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@jbondc 👍 for the benchmark test.

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I don't think the original issue was so terrible. You only ran into this case when you were contextually typed by a type with a string literal constituent to begin with. In practice, this is not frequently encountered.

However, @jbondc, I think you'll like the the current implementation a lot better. We now only create a string literal type if the constituent types have a string literal type, not just if their content is equal.

Furthermore, the types are cached in a map of strings to string literal types. Whenever testing the assignability of two string literal types, reference equality kicks in (which is fast).

Additionally, error messages are slightly better because you have a specific literal type to report (i.e. Type '"Foo"' is not assignable to '"Bar"'. instead of Type 'string' is not assignable to '"Bar"'.).

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@jbondc at worst that's probably much faster than trying to resolve the 100 different overloads. Though, I'm going to try to avoid speculating. I wasn't seeing a real perf hit in our benchmarks even with the initial change.

return stringType;
case SyntaxKind.RegularExpressionLiteral:
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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions src/compiler/parser.ts
Expand Up @@ -1977,9 +1977,7 @@ namespace ts {

function parseParameterType(): TypeNode {
if (parseOptional(SyntaxKind.ColonToken)) {
return token === SyntaxKind.StringLiteral
? <StringLiteral>parseLiteralNode(/*internName*/ true)
: parseType();
return parseType();
}

return undefined;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2367,6 +2365,8 @@ namespace ts {
// If these are followed by a dot, then parse these out as a dotted type reference instead.
let node = tryParse(parseKeywordAndNoDot);
return node || parseTypeReferenceOrTypePredicate();
case SyntaxKind.StringLiteral:
return <StringLiteral>parseLiteralNode(/*internName*/ true);
case SyntaxKind.VoidKeyword:
case SyntaxKind.ThisKeyword:
return parseTokenNode<TypeNode>();
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2397,6 +2397,7 @@ namespace ts {
case SyntaxKind.OpenBracketToken:
case SyntaxKind.LessThanToken:
case SyntaxKind.NewKeyword:
case SyntaxKind.StringLiteral:
return true;
case SyntaxKind.OpenParenToken:
// Only consider '(' the start of a type if followed by ')', '...', an identifier, a modifier,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -5457,6 +5458,7 @@ namespace ts {
return parseTokenNode<JSDocType>();
}

// TODO (drosen): Parse string literal types in JSDoc as well.
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Not sure we'd need to do this - strings types aren't directly valid jsdoc types. They'd have to be wrapped up inside an enum, 'a la:

/**
* @enum
*/
var MyEnum = {
  Member: "Member"
}

/**
* @param {MyEnum} param
*/
function foo(param) {

}

So literal string types should never appear in JSDoc comments, since nothing really supports them.

return parseJSDocTypeReference();
}

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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions tests/baselines/reference/callSignatureFunctionOverload.types
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
=== tests/cases/compiler/callSignatureFunctionOverload.ts ===
var foo: {
>foo : { (name: string): string; (name: 'order'): string; (name: 'content'): string; (name: 'done'): string; }
>foo : { (name: string): string; (name: "order"): string; (name: "content"): string; (name: "done"): string; }

(name: string): string;
>name : string

(name: 'order'): string;
>name : 'order'
>name : "order"

(name: 'content'): string;
>name : 'content'
>name : "content"

(name: 'done'): string;
>name : 'done'
>name : "done"
}

var foo2: {
>foo2 : { (name: string): string; (name: 'order'): string; (name: 'order'): string; (name: 'done'): string; }
>foo2 : { (name: string): string; (name: "order"): string; (name: "order"): string; (name: "done"): string; }

(name: string): string;
>name : string

(name: 'order'): string;
>name : 'order'
>name : "order"

(name: 'order'): string;
>name : 'order'
>name : "order"

(name: 'done'): string;
>name : 'done'
>name : "done"
}

16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions tests/baselines/reference/constantOverloadFunction.types
Expand Up @@ -19,27 +19,27 @@ class Derived3 extends Base { biz() { } }
>biz : () => void

function foo(tagName: 'canvas'): Derived1;
>foo : { (tagName: 'canvas'): Derived1; (tagName: 'div'): Derived2; (tagName: 'span'): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : 'canvas'
>foo : { (tagName: "canvas"): Derived1; (tagName: "div"): Derived2; (tagName: "span"): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : "canvas"
>Derived1 : Derived1

function foo(tagName: 'div'): Derived2;
>foo : { (tagName: 'canvas'): Derived1; (tagName: 'div'): Derived2; (tagName: 'span'): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : 'div'
>foo : { (tagName: "canvas"): Derived1; (tagName: "div"): Derived2; (tagName: "span"): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : "div"
>Derived2 : Derived2

function foo(tagName: 'span'): Derived3;
>foo : { (tagName: 'canvas'): Derived1; (tagName: 'div'): Derived2; (tagName: 'span'): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : 'span'
>foo : { (tagName: "canvas"): Derived1; (tagName: "div"): Derived2; (tagName: "span"): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : "span"
>Derived3 : Derived3

function foo(tagName: string): Base;
>foo : { (tagName: 'canvas'): Derived1; (tagName: 'div'): Derived2; (tagName: 'span'): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>foo : { (tagName: "canvas"): Derived1; (tagName: "div"): Derived2; (tagName: "span"): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : string
>Base : Base

function foo(tagName: any): Base {
>foo : { (tagName: 'canvas'): Derived1; (tagName: 'div'): Derived2; (tagName: 'span'): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>foo : { (tagName: "canvas"): Derived1; (tagName: "div"): Derived2; (tagName: "span"): Derived3; (tagName: string): Base; }
>tagName : any
>Base : Base

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