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* Enables string literals in call expression to refer to property names.
* Enables property names in call expression to refer to string literals.
* Changes string literal rename/reference behavior when string literals are in a call expression.
  Previously, all string references with matching text would reference one another globally and
  allow renaming even if such an operation would result in a compiler error.

Fixes #45549

@typescript-bot typescript-bot added the For Backlog Bug PRs that fix a backlog bug label Sep 9, 2021
    * Enables string literals in call expression to refer to property names.
    * Enables property names in call expression to refer to string literals.
    * Changes string literal rename/reference behavior when string literals are in a call expression.
      Previously, all string references with matching text would reference one another globally and
      allow renaming even if such an operation would result in a compiler error.

    Fixes microsoft#45549
// might all refer to each other, but if the string literal being considered is in a
// call expression, any reference should also be from the same call expression.
const refHasSameScope = !callExpr || callExpr === findAncestor(ref, isCallExpression);
const refHasSameText = isStringLiteralLike(ref) || isPropertyNameLiteral(ref) && getTextOfIdentifierOrLiteral(ref) === node.text;
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Currently all string literal refs are true without checking whether their text is === node.text. I think it should instead be:

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const refHasSameText = isStringLiteralLike(ref) || isPropertyNameLiteral(ref) && getTextOfIdentifierOrLiteral(ref) === node.text;
const refHasSameText = (isStringLiteralLike(ref) || isPropertyNameLiteral(ref)) && getTextOfIdentifierOrLiteral(ref) === node.text;

}
else {
// Special case: Every string literal refers at least to itself.
if (node === ref) return nodeEntry(ref, EntryKind.StringLiteral);
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Does this happen? I'd expect getPossibleSymbolReferenceNodes should filter node out of the refs list.
It's fine if it doesn't, but maybe we should consider making it do that.


if (type && isStringLiteralLike(ref) && refHasSameText) {
const refType = getContextualTypeFromParentOrAncestorTypeNode(ref, checker);
if ((refHasSameScope || !type.isStringLiteral() || type.isUnionOrIntersection()) && type === refType) {
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!type.isStringLiteral() is different from the old check type !== checker.getStringType(). Does that invert the set of refs that will be marked as references?

}
}
if (callExpr) {
if (refHasSameScope && isPropertyNameLiteral(ref) && refHasSameText) {
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A nested a could refer to something else besides the string literal node "a" even though they're both used inside the same call expression.

eg

f(a => { a: a }, "a")

const params = sig.getParameters();
for (let i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
const paramType = checker.getParameterType(sig, i);
if (isLiteralTypeNode(ref.parent) && paramType.isStringLiteral() && refHasSameText) {
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why is it isLiteralTypeNode(ref.parent) and not isLiteralTypeNode(ref)?

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@paranoiacblack Do you want to keep working on this? Otherwise I'd like to close it to reduce the number of open PRs.

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sandersn commented Jun 1, 2022

To help with PR housekeeping, I'm going to close this PR since it's pretty old now.

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