Crate ra_ap_hir

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HIR (previously known as descriptors) provides a high-level object oriented access to Rust code.

The principal difference between HIR and syntax trees is that HIR is bound to a particular crate instance. That is, it has cfg flags and features applied. So, the relation between syntax and HIR is many-to-one.

HIR is the public API of the all of the compiler logic above syntax trees. It is written in “OO” style. Each type is self contained (as in, it knows it’s parents and full context). It should be “clean code”.

hir_* crates are the implementation of the compiler logic. They are written in “ECS” style, with relatively little abstractions. Many types are not self-contained, and explicitly use local indexes, arenas, etc.

hir is what insulates the “we don’t know how to actually write an incremental compiler” from the ide with completions, hovers, etc. It is a (soft, internal) boundary: https://www.tedinski.com/2018/02/06/system-boundaries.html.

Re-exports

pub use crate::diagnostics::AnyDiagnostic;

pub use crate::diagnostics::BreakOutsideOfLoop;

pub use crate::diagnostics::InactiveCode;

pub use crate::diagnostics::InvalidDeriveTarget;

pub use crate::diagnostics::MacroError;

pub use crate::diagnostics::MalformedDerive;

pub use crate::diagnostics::MismatchedArgCount;

pub use crate::diagnostics::MissingFields;

pub use crate::diagnostics::MissingMatchArms;

pub use crate::diagnostics::MissingUnsafe;

pub use crate::diagnostics::NoSuchField;

pub use crate::diagnostics::PrivateAssocItem;

pub use crate::diagnostics::PrivateField;

pub use crate::diagnostics::ReplaceFilterMapNextWithFindMap;

pub use crate::diagnostics::TypeMismatch;

pub use crate::diagnostics::UnimplementedBuiltinMacro;

pub use crate::diagnostics::UnresolvedExternCrate;

pub use crate::diagnostics::UnresolvedImport;

pub use crate::diagnostics::UnresolvedMacroCall;

pub use crate::diagnostics::UnresolvedModule;

pub use crate::diagnostics::UnresolvedProcMacro;

Modules

db

Re-exports various subcrates databases so that the calling code can depend only on hir. This breaks abstraction boundary a bit, it would be cool if we didn’t do that.

diagnostics

Re-export diagnostics such that clients of hir don’t have to depend on low-level crates.

import_map

A map of all publicly exported items in a crate.

known

symbols

File symbol extraction.

Structs

Adjustment

Attr

AttributeTemplate

A template that the attribute input must match. Only top-level shape (#[attr] vs #[attr(...)] vs #[attr = ...]) is considered now.

Configuration options used for conditional compilation on items with cfg attributes. We have two kind of options in different namespaces: atomic options like unix, and key-value options like target_arch="x86".

Const

ConstParam

Crate

hir::Crate describes a single crate. It’s the main interface with which a crate’s dependencies interact. Mostly, it should be just a proxy for the root module.

Holds documentation

Input to the analyzer is a set of files, where each file is identified by FileId and contains source code. However, another source of source code in Rust are macros: each macro can be thought of as producing a “temporary file”. To assign an id to such a file, we use the id of the macro call that produced the file. So, a HirFileId is either a FileId (source code written by user), or a MacroCallId (source code produced by macro).

Impl

InFile

InFile<T> stores a value of T inside a particular file/syntax tree.

A single local definition.

Name is a wrapper around string, which is used in hir for both references and declarations. In theory, names should also carry hygiene info, but we are not there yet!

Primary API to get semantic information, like types, from syntax trees.

SemanticsScope

SemanticScope encapsulates the notion of a scope (the set of visible names) at a particular program point.