This change makes considerable progress on the `mu describe` command;
the only thing remaining to be implemented now is full IL printing. It
now prints the full package/module structure.
For example, to print the set of exports from our scenarios/point test:
$ mujs tools/mujs/tests/output/scenarios/point/ | mu describe - -e
package "scenarios/point" {
dependencies []
module "index" {
class "Point" [public] {
method "add": (other: any): any
property "x" [public, readonly]: number
property "y" [public, readonly]: number
method ".ctor": (x: number, y: number): any
}
}
}
This is just a pretty-printed, but is coming in handy with debugging.
This change overhauls the approach to custom decoding. Instead of decoding
the parts of the struct that are "trivial" in one pass, and then patching up
the structure afterwards with custom decoding, the decoder itself understands
the notion of custom decoder functions.
First, the general purpose logic has moved out of pkg/pack/encoding and into
a new package, pkg/util/mapper. Most functions are now members of a new top-
level type, Mapper, which may be initialized with custom decoders. This
is a map from target type to a function that can decode objects into it.
Second, the AST-specific decoding logic is rewritten to use it. All AST nodes
are now supported, including definitions, statements, and expressions. The
overall approach here is to simply define a custom decoder for any interface
type that will occur in a node field position. The mapper, upon encountering
such a type, will consult the custom decoder map; if a decoder is found, it
will be used, otherwise an error results. This decoder then needs to switch
on the type discriminated kind field that is present in the metadata, creating
a concrete struct of the right type, and then converting it to the desired
interface type. Note that, subtly, interface types used only for "marker"
purposes don't require any custom decoding, because they do not appear in
field positions and therefore won't be encountered during the decoding process.
This change splits up the decoding logic into multiple files, to
mirror the AST package structure that the functions correspond to.
Additionally, there is now less "loose" reflection and dynamic lookup
code scattered throughout; it is now consolidated into the decoder,
with a set of "generic" functions like `fieldObject`, `asString`, etc.
This change implements custom class member decoding. As with module methods,
the function body AST nodes remain nil, as custom AST decoding isn't yet done.
This change begins to implement some of the AST custom decoding, beneath
the Package's Module map. In particular, we now unmarshal "one level"
beyond this, populating each Module's ModuleMember map. This includes
Classes, Exports, ModuleProperties, and ModuleMethods. The Class AST's
Members have been marked "custom", in addition to Block's Statements,
because they required kind-directed decoding. But Exports and
ModuleProperties can be decoded entirely using the tag-directed decoding
scheme. Up next, custom decoding of ClassMembers. At that point, all
definition-level decoding will be done, leaving MuIL's ASTs.
This change adjusts pointers correctly when unmarshaling into target
pointer types. This handles arrays and maps of pointer elements, in
addition to consolidating existing logic for marshaling into a
destination top-level pointer as well.
This change eliminates boilerplate decoding logic in all the different
data structures, and instead uses a new tag-directed decoding scheme.
This works a lot like the JSON deserializers, in that it recognizes the
`json:"name"` tags, except that we permit annotation of fields that
require custom deserialization, as `json:"name,custom"`. The existing
`json:"name,omitempty"` tag is recognized for optional fields.
This adds basic custom decoding for the MuPack metadata section of
the incoming JSON/YAML. Because of the type discriminated union nature
of the incoming payload, we cannot rely on the simple built-in JSON/YAML
unmarshaling behavior. Note that for the metadata section -- what is
in this checkin -- we could have, but the IL AST nodes are problematic.
(To know what kind of structure to creat requires inspecting the "kind"
field of the IL.) We will use a reflection-driven walk of the target
structure plus a weakly typed deserialized map[string]interface{}, as
is fairly customary in Go for scenarios like this (though good libaries
seem to be lacking in this area...).