Now accepted as
[SE-0489](https://github.com/ZevEisenberg/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals/0489-codable-error-printing.md).
# To Do
- [x] confirm which version of Swift to use for the availability
annotations. Probably 6.3 at time of writing.
# Context
Re: [Swift forum
post](https://forums.swift.org/t/the-future-of-serialization-deserialization-apis/78585/77),
where a discussion about future serialization tools in Swift prompted
Kevin Perry to suggest that some proposed changes could actually be made
in today's stdlib.
# Summary of Changes
Conforms `EncodingError` and `DecodingError` to
`CustomDebugStringConvertible` and adds a more-readable
`debugDescription`.
# Future Directions
This is a pared-down version of some experiments I did in
[UsefulDecode](https://github.com/ZevEisenberg/UsefulDecode). The
changes in this PR are the best I could do without changing the public
interface of `DecodingError` and `EncodingError`, and without modifying
the way the `JSON`/`PropertyList` `Encoder`/`Decoder` in Foundation
generate their errors' debug descriptions.
In the above-linked
[UsefulDecode](https://github.com/ZevEisenberg/UsefulDecode) repo, when
JSON decoding fails, I go back and re-decode the JSON using
`JSONSerialization` in order to provide more context about what failed,
and why. I didn't attempt to make such a change here, but I'd like to
discuss what may be possible.
# Examples
To illustrate the effect of the changes in this PR, I removed my changes
to stdlib/public/core/Codable.swift and ran my new test cases again.
Here are the resulting diffs.
##
`test_encodingError_invalidValue_nonEmptyCodingPath_nilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`invalidValue(234, Swift.EncodingError.Context(codingPath:
[GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "first", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "second", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "2", intValue: 2)], debugDescription: "You
cannot do that!", underlyingError: nil))`
### After
`EncodingError.invalidValue: 234 (Int). Path: first.second[2]. Debug
description: You cannot do that!`
## `test_decodingError_valueNotFound_nilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`valueNotFound(Swift.String, Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath:
[GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "0", intValue: 0),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "firstName", intValue: nil)],
debugDescription: "Description for debugging purposes", underlyingError:
nil))`
### After
`DecodingError.valueNotFound: Expected value of type String but found
null instead. Path: [0].firstName. Debug description: Description for
debugging purposes`
## `test_decodingError_keyNotFound_nonNilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`keyNotFound(GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "name", intValue: nil),
Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [GenericCodingKey(stringValue:
"0", intValue: 0), GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "address", intValue:
nil), GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "city", intValue: nil)],
debugDescription: "Just some info to help you out", underlyingError:
Optional(main.GenericError(name: "hey, who turned out the lights?"))))`
### After
`DecodingError.keyNotFound: Key \'name\' not found in keyed decoding
container. Path: [0].address.city. Debug description: Just some info to
help you out. Underlying error: GenericError(name: "hey, who turned out
the lights?")`
## `test_decodingError_typeMismatch_nilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`typeMismatch(Swift.String, Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath:
[GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "0", intValue: 0),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "address", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "city", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "birds", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "1", intValue: 1),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "name", intValue: nil)], debugDescription:
"This is where the debug description goes", underlyingError: nil))`
### After
`DecodingError.typeMismatch: expected value of type String. Path:
[0].address.city.birds[1].name. Debug description: This is where the
debug description goes`
## `test_decodingError_dataCorrupted_nonEmptyCodingPath`
### Before
`dataCorrupted(Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath:
[GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "first", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "second", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "2", intValue: 2)], debugDescription:
"There was apparently some data corruption!", underlyingError:
Optional(main.GenericError(name: "This data corruption is getting out of
hand"))))`
### After
`DecodingError.dataCorrupted: Data was corrupted. Path: first.second[2].
Debug description: There was apparently some data corruption!.
Underlying error: GenericError(name: "This data corruption is getting
out of hand")`
## `test_decodingError_valueNotFound_nonNilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`valueNotFound(Swift.Int, Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath:
[GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "0", intValue: 0),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "population", intValue: nil)],
debugDescription: "Here is the debug description for value-not-found",
underlyingError: Optional(main.GenericError(name: "these aren\\\'t the
droids you\\\'re looking for"))))`
### After
`DecodingError.valueNotFound: Expected value of type Int but found null
instead. Path: [0].population. Debug description: Here is the debug
description for value-not-found. Underlying error: GenericError(name:
"these aren\\\'t the droids you\\\'re looking for")`
##
`test_encodingError_invalidValue_emptyCodingPath_nonNilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`invalidValue(345, Swift.EncodingError.Context(codingPath: [],
debugDescription: "You cannot do that!", underlyingError:
Optional(main.GenericError(name: "You really cannot do that"))))`
### After
`EncodingError.invalidValue: 345 (Int). Debug description: You cannot do
that!. Underlying error: GenericError(name: "You really cannot do
that")`
## `test_decodingError_typeMismatch_nonNilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`typeMismatch(Swift.String, Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath:
[GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "0", intValue: 0),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "address", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "1", intValue: 1),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "street", intValue: nil)],
debugDescription: "Some debug description", underlyingError:
Optional(main.GenericError(name: "some generic error goes here"))))`
### After
`DecodingError.typeMismatch: expected value of type String. Path:
[0].address[1].street. Debug description: Some debug description.
Underlying error: GenericError(name: "some generic error goes here")`
## `test_encodingError_invalidValue_emptyCodingPath_nilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`invalidValue(123, Swift.EncodingError.Context(codingPath: [],
debugDescription: "You cannot do that!", underlyingError: nil))`
### After
`EncodingError.invalidValue: 123 (Int). Debug description: You cannot do
that!`
## `test_decodingError_keyNotFound_nilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`keyNotFound(GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "name", intValue: nil),
Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [GenericCodingKey(stringValue:
"0", intValue: 0), GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "address", intValue:
nil), GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "city", intValue: nil)],
debugDescription: "How would you describe your relationship with your
debugger?", underlyingError: nil))`
### After
`DecodingError.keyNotFound: Key \'name\' not found in keyed decoding
container. Path: [0]address.city. Debug description: How would you
describe your relationship with your debugger?`
## `test_decodingError_dataCorrupted_emptyCodingPath`
### Before
`dataCorrupted(Swift.DecodingError.Context(codingPath: [],
debugDescription: "The given data was not valid JSON", underlyingError:
Optional(main.GenericError(name: "just some data corruption"))))`
### After
`DecodingError.dataCorrupted: Data was corrupted. Debug description: The
given data was not valid JSON. Underlying error: GenericError(name:
"just some data corruption")`
##
`test_encodingError_invalidValue_nonEmptyCodingPath_nonNilUnderlyingError`
### Before
`invalidValue(456, Swift.EncodingError.Context(codingPath:
[GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "first", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "second", intValue: nil),
GenericCodingKey(stringValue: "2", intValue: 2)], debugDescription: "You
cannot do that!", underlyingError: Optional(main.GenericError(name: "You
really cannot do that"))))`
### After
`EncodingError.invalidValue: 456 (Int). Path: first.second[2]. Debug
description: You cannot do that!. Underlying error: GenericError(name:
"You really cannot do that")`
Inspired by #84826, I've dusted off and completely reworked a native
implementation of integer-to-string conversion.
Besides existing tests in this repository, the core of the
implementation has been comprehensively tested in a separate package for
all bases between 2–36 to demonstrate identical output for all 8-bit and
16-bit values, and for randomly generated 32-bit, 64-bit, and 128-bit
values.
Resolves#51902.
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Optimize (the very inefficient) RawRepresentable comparison function call to a simple compare of enum tags.
For example,
```
enum E: String {
case a, b, c
}
```
is compared by getting the raw values of both operands and doing a string compare.
This peephole optimizations replaces the call to such a comparison function with a direct compare of the enum tags, which boils down to a single integer comparison instruction.
rdar://151788987
The new generalization sometimes causes a runtime hang that I’m still analyzing. The original declaration should be considered more specific for preexisting use cases, eliminating the source compatibility issue.
`func type(of:)` is wholly magical, but it does have a signature in the stdlib (mostly for documentation purposes), and it currently requires its input to be copyable and escapable.
`type(of:)` is actually usable on all entities, so it seems desirable to update its signature to reflect this.
Additionally, this seems like a good time to mark its exported symbol obsolete. I don’t expect anyone would ever link to it (unless there is/was a bug), so in theory we could also silently remove it — but explicitly marking it as legacy ABI seems the least risky option.
We cannot currently express its proper lifetime semantics: its result’s lifetime should depend on the intersection of the lifetime of the left argument and the lifetime of the result of the right argument.
`@lifetime(optional, defaultValue.result)` is what we want, but the `.result` part is not currently expressible. (Tying the dependency on the closure argument itself may be a viable option, but we aren’t confident enough to ship it like that yet.)
Introduce a marker protocol SendableMetatype that is used to indicate
when the metatype of a type will conform to Sendable. Specifically,
`T: SendableMetatype` implies `T.Type: Sendable`. When strict
metatype sendability is enabled, metatypes are only sendable when `T:
SendableMetatype`.
All nominal types implicitly conform to `SendableMetatype`, as do the
various builtin types, function types, etc. The `Sendable` marker
protocol now inherits from `SendableMetatype`, so that `T: Sendable`
implies `T.Type: Sendable`.
Thank you Slava for the excellent idea!
This PR adds basic support for storing lifetime dependence information,
transform Span return types, and generate lifetime annotations.
rdar://139074571
* Import __counted_by for function return values
Instead of simply passing a parameter index to _SwiftifyInfo, the
_SwiftifyExpr enum is introduced. It currently has two cases:
- .param(index: Int), corresponding to the previous parameter index
- .return, corresponding to the function's return value.
ClangImporter is also updated to pass this new information along to
_SwiftifyImport, allowing overloads with buffer pointer return types to
be generated. The swiftified return values currently return Span when
the return value is marked as nonescaping, despite this not being sound.
This is a bug that will be fixed in the next commit, as the issue is
greater than just for return values.
* Fix Span variant selection
There was an assumption that all converted pointers were either
converted to Span-family pointers, or UnsafeBufferPointer-family
pointers. This was not consistently handled, resulting in violating the
`assert(nonescaping)` assert when the two were mixed. This patch removes
the Variant struct, and instead each swiftified pointer separately
tracks whether it should map to Span or UnsafeBufferPointer.
This also fixes return pointers being incorrectly mapped to Span when
marked as nonescaping.
* Make pointer bounds non-experimental
* Rename @PointerBounds to @_SwiftifyImport
* Rename filenames containing PointerBounds
* Add _PointerParam exception to stdlib ABI test
* Add _PointerParam to stdlib API changes
* Rename _PointerParam to _SwiftifyInfo
We used to treat 'rethrows' like an attribute, printing it as
'@rethrows', which was incorrect. That's fixed now, so update the
API/ABI checker tests to account for that.
