fix(renderer): attach CommentNodes to visual tree

nativescript-angular/animations/animation-engine.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/* tslint:disable */
 import { ɵDomAnimationEngine as DomAnimationEngine } from "@angular/animations/browser";
 import { AnimationEvent, AnimationPlayer } from "@angular/animations";
 

nativescript-angular/directives/list-view-comp.ts

@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ import {
 } from "@angular/core";
 import { ListView, ItemEventData } from "tns-core-modules/ui/list-view";
 import { View, KeyedTemplate } from "tns-core-modules/ui/core/view";
-import { ObservableArray } from "tns-core-modules/data/observable-array";
 import { LayoutBase } from "tns-core-modules/ui/layouts/layout-base";
+import { ObservableArray } from "tns-core-modules/data/observable-array";
 import { profile } from "tns-core-modules/profiling";
 
-import { CommentNode } from "../element-registry";
+import { getSingleViewRecursive } from "../element-registry";
 import { isListLikeIterable } from "../collection-facade";
 import { listViewLog, listViewError } from "../trace";
 
@@ -216,30 +216,6 @@ export class ListViewComponent implements DoCheck, OnDestroy, AfterContentInit {
     }
 }
 
-function getSingleViewRecursive(nodes: Array<any>, nestLevel: number): View {
-    const actualNodes = nodes.filter(node => !(node instanceof CommentNode));
-
-    if (actualNodes.length === 0) {
-        throw new Error(`No suitable views found in list template! ` +
-            `Nesting level: ${nestLevel}`);
-    } else if (actualNodes.length > 1) {
-        throw new Error(`More than one view found in list template!` +
-            `Nesting level: ${nestLevel}`);
-    }
-
-    const rootLayout = actualNodes[0];
-    if (!rootLayout) {
-        return getSingleViewRecursive(rootLayout.children, nestLevel + 1);
-    }
-
-    let parentLayout = rootLayout.parent;
-    if (parentLayout instanceof LayoutBase) {
-        parentLayout.removeChild(rootLayout);
-    }
-
-    return rootLayout;
-}
-
 export interface ComponentView {
     rootNodes: Array<any>;
     destroy(): void;

nativescript-angular/directives/tab-view.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import {
 } from "@angular/core";
 import { TabView, TabViewItem } from "tns-core-modules/ui/tab-view";
 
-import { CommentNode } from "../element-registry";
+import { InvisibleNode } from "../element-registry";
 import { rendererLog } from "../trace";
 import { isBlank } from "../lang-facade";
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ export class TabViewItemDirective implements OnInit {
         const viewRef = this.viewContainer.createEmbeddedView(this.templateRef);
         // Filter out text nodes and comments
         const realViews = viewRef.rootNodes.filter(node =>
-                            !(node instanceof CommentNode));
+                            !(node instanceof InvisibleNode));
 
         if (realViews.length > 0) {
             this.item.view = realViews[0];

nativescript-angular/element-registry.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 import { View } from "tns-core-modules/ui/core/view";
+import { LayoutBase } from "tns-core-modules/ui/layouts/layout-base";
 
 export type NgView = (View & ViewExtensions);
-export type NgElement = NgView | CommentNode;
+export type NgElement = NgView | InvisibleNode;
 
 export interface ViewExtensions {
     nodeType: number;
@@ -15,12 +16,55 @@ export interface ViewClass {
     new (): View;
 }
 
-// used for creating comments and text nodes in the renderer
-export class CommentNode {
-    meta: { skipAddToDom: true };
+export abstract class InvisibleNode extends View implements ViewExtensions {
+    meta: { skipAddToDom: boolean };
     templateParent: NgView;
+    nodeType: number;
+    nodeName: string;
+    ngCssClasses: Map<string, boolean>;
+
+    constructor() {
+        super();
+
+        this.nodeType = 1;
+        this.nodeName = getClassName(this);
+    }
+
+    toString() {
+        return `${this.nodeName}(${this.id})`;
+    }
+}
+
+export class CommentNode extends InvisibleNode {
+    protected static id = 0;
+
+    constructor() {
+        super();
+
+        this.meta = {
+            skipAddToDom: false,
+        };
+        this.id = CommentNode.id.toString();
+        CommentNode.id += 1;
+    }
+}
+
+export class TextNode extends InvisibleNode {
+    protected static id = 0;
+
+    constructor() {
+        super();
+
+        this.meta = {
+            skipAddToDom: true,
+        };
+        this.id = TextNode.id.toString();
+        TextNode.id += 1;
+    }
 }
 
+const getClassName = instance => instance.constructor.name;
+
 export interface ViewClassMeta {
     skipAddToDom?: boolean;
     insertChild?: (parent: NgView, child: NgView, atIndex: number) => void;
@@ -76,6 +120,30 @@ export function isKnownView(elementName: string): boolean {
         elementMap.has(elementName.toLowerCase());
 }
 
+export function getSingleViewRecursive(nodes: Array<any>, nestLevel: number): View {
+    const actualNodes = nodes.filter(node => !(node instanceof InvisibleNode));
+
+    if (actualNodes.length === 0) {
+        throw new Error(`No suitable views found in list template! ` +
+            `Nesting level: ${nestLevel}`);
+    } else if (actualNodes.length > 1) {
+        throw new Error(`More than one view found in list template!` +
+            `Nesting level: ${nestLevel}`);
+    }
+
+    const rootLayout = actualNodes[0];
+    if (!rootLayout) {
+        return getSingleViewRecursive(rootLayout.children, nestLevel + 1);
+    }
+
+    const parentLayout = rootLayout.parent;
+    if (parentLayout instanceof LayoutBase) {
+        parentLayout.removeChild(rootLayout);
+    }
+
+    return rootLayout;
+}
+
 // Register default NativeScript components
 // Note: ActionBar related components are registerd together with action-bar directives.
 registerElement("AbsoluteLayout", () => require("tns-core-modules/ui/layouts/absolute-layout").AbsoluteLayout);

nativescript-angular/package.json

@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@
     "@angular/http": "~4.0.0 || ~4.1.0",
     "@angular/platform-browser": "~4.0.0 || ~4.1.0",
     "@angular/router": "~4.0.0 || ~4.1.0",
-    "codelyzer": "^3.0.1",
-    "rxjs": "^5.0.1",
+    "codelyzer": "^3.1.2",
+    "rxjs": "^5.4.2",
     "tns-core-modules": "next",
     "tslint": "^5.1.0",
-    "typescript": "~2.3.2",
+    "typescript": "^2.4.0",
     "zone.js": "^0.8.4"
   }
 }

nativescript-angular/renderer.ts

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { profile } from "tns-core-modules/profiling";
 import { APP_ROOT_VIEW, DEVICE, getRootPage } from "./platform-providers";
 import { isBlank } from "./lang-facade";
 import { ViewUtil } from "./view-util";
-import { NgView, CommentNode } from "./element-registry";
+import { NgView, InvisibleNode } from "./element-registry";
 import { rendererLog as traceLog } from "./trace";
 
 // CONTENT_ATTR not exported from NativeScript_renderer - we need it for styles application.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export class NativeScriptRenderer extends Renderer2 {
     }
 
     @profile
-    createComment(_value: any): CommentNode {
+    createComment(_value: any): InvisibleNode {
         traceLog(`NativeScriptRenderer.createComment ${_value}`);
         return this.viewUtil.createComment();
     }
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export class NativeScriptRenderer extends Renderer2 {
     }
 
     @profile
-    createText(_value: string): CommentNode {
+    createText(_value: string): InvisibleNode {
         traceLog(`NativeScriptRenderer.createText ${_value}`);
         return this.viewUtil.createText();
     }
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ class EmulatedRenderer extends NativeScriptRenderer {
     }
 }
 
+// tslint:disable-next-line
 const addStyleToCss = profile('"renderer".addStyleToCss', function addStyleToCss(style: string): void {
     addCss(style);
 });

nativescript-angular/router/ns-module-factory-loader.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ import {
     SystemJsNgModuleLoader,
     Type,
 } from "@angular/core";
-import { path, knownFolders } from "tns-core-modules/file-system";
+import {
+    path as fileSystemPath,
+    knownFolders
+} from "tns-core-modules/file-system";
 
 const SEPARATOR = "#";
 
@@ -51,9 +54,9 @@ function splitPath(path: string): {modulePath: string, exportName: string} {
 
 function getAbsolutePath(relativePath: string) {
     const projectPath = knownFolders.currentApp().path;
-    const absolutePath = path.join(projectPath, relativePath);
+    const absolutePath = fileSystemPath.join(projectPath, relativePath);
 
-    return path.normalize(absolutePath);
+    return fileSystemPath.normalize(absolutePath);
 }
 
 function checkNotEmpty(value: any, modulePath: string, exportName: string): void {

nativescript-angular/tsconfig.json

@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@
     "declaration": true,
     "removeComments": false,
     "noEmitOnError": true,
-    "noUnusedLocals": true,
-    "noUnusedParameters": true,
     "noImplicitAny": false,
     "lib": [
         "dom",

nativescript-angular/tslint.json

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
     "no-string-literal": false,
     "no-switch-case-fall-through": true,
     "no-unused-expression": true,
+    "no-unused-variable": true,
     "no-var-keyword": true,
     "radix": false,
     "switch-default": true,

nativescript-angular/value-accessors/base-value-accessor.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { ControlValueAccessor } from "@angular/forms";
 import { View } from "tns-core-modules/ui/core/view";
 
 export class BaseValueAccessor<TView extends View> implements ControlValueAccessor {
-    private pendingChangeNotification: number = 0;
+    private pendingChangeNotification: any = 0;
     onChange = (_) => { };
     onTouched = () => {};
 

nativescript-angular/view-util.ts

@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ import { ContentView } from "tns-core-modules/ui/content-view";
 import { LayoutBase } from "tns-core-modules/ui/layouts/layout-base";
 import {
     CommentNode,
+    InvisibleNode,
     NgElement,
     NgView,
+    TextNode,
     ViewExtensions,
     getViewClass,
     getViewMeta,
@@ -52,9 +54,8 @@ export class ViewUtil {
     }
 
     public insertChild(parent: any, child: NgElement, atIndex: number = -1) {
-        if (child instanceof CommentNode) {
+        if (child instanceof InvisibleNode) {
             child.templateParent = parent;
-            return;
         }
 
         if (!parent || isDetachedElement(child)) {
@@ -79,16 +80,11 @@ export class ViewUtil {
             parent.content = child;
         } else if (parent && parent._addChildFromBuilder) {
             parent._addChildFromBuilder(child.nodeName, child);
-        } else {
-            // throw new Error("Parent can"t contain children: " + parent.nodeName + ", " + parent);
         }
     }
 
     public removeChild(parent: any, child: NgElement) {
-        if (!parent ||
-            child instanceof CommentNode ||
-            isDetachedElement(child)) {
-
+        if (!parent || isDetachedElement(child)) {
             return;
         }
 
@@ -102,8 +98,6 @@ export class ViewUtil {
             }
         } else if (isView(parent)) {
             parent._removeView(child);
-        } else {
-            // throw new Error("Unknown parent type: " + parent);
         }
     }
 
@@ -112,17 +106,15 @@ export class ViewUtil {
             return parent.getChildIndex(child);
         } else if (isContentView(parent)) {
             return child === parent.content ? 0 : -1;
-        } else {
-            // throw new Error("Parent can"t contain children: " + parent);
         }
     }
 
-    public createComment(): CommentNode {
+    public createComment(): InvisibleNode {
         return new CommentNode();
     }
 
-    public createText(): CommentNode {
-        return new CommentNode();
+    public createText(): InvisibleNode {
+        return new TextNode();
     }
 
     public createView(name: string): NgView {