// Copyright 2021 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // This file implements instantiation of generic types // through substitution of type parameters by type arguments. package types import ( "errors" "fmt" "go/token" ) // Instantiate instantiates the type orig with the given type arguments targs. // orig must be a *Named or a *Signature type. If there is no error, the // resulting Type is an instantiated type of the same kind (either a *Named or // a *Signature). Methods attached to a *Named type are also instantiated, and // associated with a new *Func that has the same position as the original // method, but nil function scope. // // If ctxt is non-nil, it may be used to de-duplicate the instance against // previous instances with the same identity. As a special case, generic // *Signature origin types are only considered identical if they are pointer // equivalent, so that instantiating distinct (but possibly identical) // signatures will yield different instances. The use of a shared context does // not guarantee that identical instances are deduplicated in all cases. // // If validate is set, Instantiate verifies that the number of type arguments // and parameters match, and that the type arguments satisfy their // corresponding type constraints. If verification fails, the resulting error // may wrap an *ArgumentError indicating which type argument did not satisfy // its corresponding type parameter constraint, and why. // // If validate is not set, Instantiate does not verify the type argument count // or whether the type arguments satisfy their constraints. Instantiate is // guaranteed to not return an error, but may panic. Specifically, for // *Signature types, Instantiate will panic immediately if the type argument // count is incorrect; for *Named types, a panic may occur later inside the // *Named API. func Instantiate(ctxt *Context, orig Type, targs []Type, validate bool) (Type, error) { if validate { var tparams []*TypeParam switch t := orig.(type) { case *Named: tparams = t.TypeParams().list() case *Signature: tparams = t.TypeParams().list() } if len(targs) != len(tparams) { return nil, fmt.Errorf("got %d type arguments but %s has %d type parameters", len(targs), orig, len(tparams)) } if i, err := (*Checker)(nil).verify(token.NoPos, tparams, targs); err != nil { return nil, &ArgumentError{i, err} } } inst := (*Checker)(nil).instance(token.NoPos, orig, targs, ctxt) return inst, nil } // instance creates a type or function instance using the given original type // typ and arguments targs. For Named types the resulting instance will be // unexpanded. func (check *Checker) instance(pos token.Pos, orig Type, targs []Type, ctxt *Context) (res Type) { var h string if ctxt != nil { h = ctxt.instanceHash(orig, targs) // typ may already have been instantiated with identical type arguments. In // that case, re-use the existing instance. if inst := ctxt.lookup(h, orig, targs); inst != nil { return inst } } switch orig := orig.(type) { case *Named: tname := NewTypeName(pos, orig.obj.pkg, orig.obj.name, nil) named := check.newNamed(tname, orig, nil, nil, nil) // underlying, tparams, and methods are set when named is resolved named.targs = newTypeList(targs) named.resolver = func(ctxt *Context, n *Named) (*TypeParamList, Type, *methodList) { return expandNamed(ctxt, n, pos) } res = named case *Signature: tparams := orig.TypeParams() if !check.validateTArgLen(pos, tparams.Len(), len(targs)) { return Typ[Invalid] } if tparams.Len() == 0 { return orig // nothing to do (minor optimization) } sig := check.subst(pos, orig, makeSubstMap(tparams.list(), targs), ctxt).(*Signature) // If the signature doesn't use its type parameters, subst // will not make a copy. In that case, make a copy now (so // we can set tparams to nil w/o causing side-effects). if sig == orig { copy := *sig sig = © } // After instantiating a generic signature, it is not generic // anymore; we need to set tparams to nil. sig.tparams = nil res = sig default: // only types and functions can be generic panic(fmt.Sprintf("%v: cannot instantiate %v", pos, orig)) } if ctxt != nil { // It's possible that we've lost a race to add named to the context. // In this case, use whichever instance is recorded in the context. res = ctxt.update(h, orig, targs, res) } return res } // validateTArgLen verifies that the length of targs and tparams matches, // reporting an error if not. If validation fails and check is nil, // validateTArgLen panics. func (check *Checker) validateTArgLen(pos token.Pos, ntparams, ntargs int) bool { if ntargs != ntparams { // TODO(gri) provide better error message if check != nil { check.errorf(atPos(pos), _WrongTypeArgCount, "got %d arguments but %d type parameters", ntargs, ntparams) return false } panic(fmt.Sprintf("%v: got %d arguments but %d type parameters", pos, ntargs, ntparams)) } return true } func (check *Checker) verify(pos token.Pos, tparams []*TypeParam, targs []Type) (int, error) { smap := makeSubstMap(tparams, targs) for i, tpar := range tparams { // Ensure that we have a (possibly implicit) interface as type bound (issue #51048). tpar.iface() // The type parameter bound is parameterized with the same type parameters // as the instantiated type; before we can use it for bounds checking we // need to instantiate it with the type arguments with which we instantiated // the parameterized type. bound := check.subst(pos, tpar.bound, smap, nil) if err := check.implements(targs[i], bound); err != nil { return i, err } } return -1, nil } // implements checks if V implements T and reports an error if it doesn't. // The receiver may be nil if implements is called through an exported // API call such as AssignableTo. func (check *Checker) implements(V, T Type) error { Vu := under(V) Tu := under(T) if Vu == Typ[Invalid] || Tu == Typ[Invalid] { return nil // avoid follow-on errors } if p, _ := Vu.(*Pointer); p != nil && under(p.base) == Typ[Invalid] { return nil // avoid follow-on errors (see issue #49541 for an example) } errorf := func(format string, args ...any) error { return errors.New(check.sprintf(format, args...)) } Ti, _ := Tu.(*Interface) if Ti == nil { var cause string if isInterfacePtr(Tu) { cause = check.sprintf("type %s is pointer to interface, not interface", T) } else { cause = check.sprintf("%s is not an interface", T) } return errorf("%s does not implement %s (%s)", V, T, cause) } // Every type satisfies the empty interface. if Ti.Empty() { return nil } // T is not the empty interface (i.e., the type set of T is restricted) // An interface V with an empty type set satisfies any interface. // (The empty set is a subset of any set.) Vi, _ := Vu.(*Interface) if Vi != nil && Vi.typeSet().IsEmpty() { return nil } // type set of V is not empty // No type with non-empty type set satisfies the empty type set. if Ti.typeSet().IsEmpty() { return errorf("cannot implement %s (empty type set)", T) } // V must implement T's methods, if any. if m, wrong := check.missingMethod(V, Ti, true); m != nil /* !Implements(V, Ti) */ { return errorf("%s does not implement %s %s", V, T, check.missingMethodReason(V, T, m, wrong)) } // If T is comparable, V must be comparable. // Remember as a pending error and report only if we don't have a more specific error. var pending error if Ti.IsComparable() && !comparable(V, false, nil, nil) { pending = errorf("%s does not implement comparable", V) } // V must also be in the set of types of T, if any. // Constraints with empty type sets were already excluded above. if !Ti.typeSet().hasTerms() { return pending // nothing to do } // If V is itself an interface, each of its possible types must be in the set // of T types (i.e., the V type set must be a subset of the T type set). // Interfaces V with empty type sets were already excluded above. if Vi != nil { if !Vi.typeSet().subsetOf(Ti.typeSet()) { // TODO(gri) report which type is missing return errorf("%s does not implement %s", V, T) } return pending } // Otherwise, V's type must be included in the iface type set. var alt Type if Ti.typeSet().is(func(t *term) bool { if !t.includes(V) { // If V ∉ t.typ but V ∈ ~t.typ then remember this type // so we can suggest it as an alternative in the error // message. if alt == nil && !t.tilde && Identical(t.typ, under(t.typ)) { tt := *t tt.tilde = true if tt.includes(V) { alt = t.typ } } return true } return false }) { if alt != nil { return errorf("%s does not implement %s (possibly missing ~ for %s in constraint %s)", V, T, alt, T) } else { return errorf("%s does not implement %s", V, T) } } return pending }