## Summary
Derived from #17371Fixesastral-sh/ty#256
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1415
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1433
Fixes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1524
Properly handles any kind of recursive inference and prevents panics.
---
Let me explain techniques for converging fixed-point iterations during
recursive type inference.
There are two types of type inference that naively don't converge
(causing salsa to panic): divergent type inference and oscillating type
inference.
### Divergent type inference
Divergent type inference occurs when eagerly expanding a recursive type.
A typical example is this:
```python
class C:
def f(self, other: "C"):
self.x = (other.x, 1)
reveal_type(C().x) # revealed: Unknown | tuple[Unknown | tuple[Unknown | tuple[..., Literal[1]], Literal[1]], Literal[1]]
```
To solve this problem, we have already introduced `Divergent` types
(https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/20312). `Divergent` types are
treated as a kind of dynamic type [^1].
```python
Unknown | tuple[Unknown | tuple[Unknown | tuple[..., Literal[1]], Literal[1]], Literal[1]]
=> Unknown | tuple[Divergent, Literal[1]]
```
When a query function that returns a type enters a cycle, it sets
`Divergent` as the cycle initial value (instead of `Never`). Then, in
the cycle recovery function, it reduces the nesting of types containing
`Divergent` to converge.
```python
0th: Divergent
1st: Unknown | tuple[Divergent, Literal[1]]
2nd: Unknown | tuple[Unknown | tuple[Divergent, Literal[1]], Literal[1]]
=> Unknown | tuple[Divergent, Literal[1]]
```
Each cycle recovery function for each query should operate only on the
`Divergent` type originating from that query.
For this reason, while `Divergent` appears the same as `Any` to the
user, it internally carries some information: the location where the
cycle occurred. Previously, we roughly identified this by having the
scope where the cycle occurred, but with the update to salsa, functions
that create cycle initial values can now receive a `salsa::Id`
(https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa/pull/1012). This is an opaque ID that
uniquely identifies the cycle head (the query that is the starting point
for the fixed-point iteration). `Divergent` now has this `salsa::Id`.
### Oscillating type inference
Now, another thing to consider is oscillating type inference.
Oscillating type inference arises from the fact that monotonicity is
broken. Monotonicity here means that for a query function, if it enters
a cycle, the calculation must start from a "bottom value" and progress
towards the final result with each cycle. Monotonicity breaks down in
type systems that have features like overloading and overriding.
```python
class Base:
def flip(self) -> "Sub":
return Sub()
class Sub(Base):
def flip(self) -> "Base":
return Base()
class C:
def __init__(self, x: Sub):
self.x = x
def replace_with(self, other: "C"):
self.x = other.x.flip()
reveal_type(C(Sub()).x)
```
Naive fixed-point iteration results in `Divergent -> Sub -> Base -> Sub
-> ...`, which oscillates forever without diverging or converging. To
address this, the salsa API has been modified so that the cycle recovery
function receives the value of the previous cycle
(https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa/pull/1012).
The cycle recovery function returns the union type of the current cycle
and the previous cycle. In the above example, the result type for each
cycle is `Divergent -> Sub -> Base (= Sub | Base) -> Base`, which
converges.
The final result of oscillating type inference does not contain
`Divergent` because `Divergent` that appears in a union type can be
removed, as is clear from the expansion. This simplification is
performed at the same time as nesting reduction.
```
T | Divergent = T | (T | (T | ...)) = T
```
[^1]: In theory, it may be possible to strictly treat types containing
`Divergent` types as recursive types, but we probably shouldn't go that
deep yet. (AFAIK, there are no PEPs that specify how to handle
implicitly recursive types that aren't named by type aliases)
## Performance analysis
A happy side effect of this PR is that we've observed widespread
performance improvements!
This is likely due to the removal of the `ITERATIONS_BEFORE_FALLBACK`
and max-specialization depth trick
(https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1433,
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/1415), which means we reach a
fixed point much sooner.
## Ecosystem analysis
The changes look good overall.
You may notice changes in the converged values for recursive types,
this is because the way recursive types are normalized has been changed.
Previously, types containing `Divergent` types were normalized by
replacing them with the `Divergent` type itself, but in this PR, types
with a nesting level of 2 or more that contain `Divergent` types are
normalized by replacing them with a type with a nesting level of 1. This
means that information about the non-divergent parts of recursive types
is no longer lost.
```python
# previous
tuple[tuple[Divergent, int], int] => Divergent
# now
tuple[tuple[Divergent, int], int] => tuple[Divergent, int]
```
The false positive error introduced in this PR occurs in class
definitions with self-referential base classes, such as the one below.
```python
from typing_extensions import Generic, TypeVar
T = TypeVar("T")
U = TypeVar("U")
class Base2(Generic[T, U]): ...
# TODO: no error
# error: [unsupported-base] "Unsupported class base with type `<class 'Base2[Sub2, U@Sub2]'> | <class 'Base2[Sub2[Unknown], U@Sub2]'>`"
class Sub2(Base2["Sub2", U]): ...
```
This is due to the lack of support for unions of MROs, or because cyclic
legacy generic types are not inferred as generic types early in the
query cycle.
## Test Plan
All samples listed in astral-sh/ty#256 are tested and passed without any
panic!
## Acknowledgments
Thanks to @MichaReiser for working on bug fixes and improvements to
salsa for this PR. @carljm also contributed early on to the discussion
of the query convergence mechanism proposed in this PR.
---------
Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
## Summary
This PR updates the server to keep track of open files both system and
virtual files.
This is done by updating the project by adding the file in the open file
set in `didOpen` notification and removing it in `didClose`
notification.
This does mean that for workspace diagnostics, ty will only check open
files because the behavior of different diagnostic builder is to first
check `is_file_open` and only add diagnostics for open files. So, this
required updating the `is_file_open` model to be `should_check_file`
model which validates whether the file needs to be checked based on the
`CheckMode`. If the check mode is open files only then it will check
whether the file is open. If it's all files then it'll return `true` by
default.
Closes: astral-sh/ty#619
## Test Plan
### Before
There are two files in the project: `__init__.py` and `diagnostics.py`.
In the video, I'm demonstrating the old behavior where making changes to
the (open) `diagnostics.py` file results in re-parsing the file:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c2ac0ecd-9c77-42af-a924-c3744b146045
### After
Same setup as above.
In the video, I'm demonstrating the new behavior where making changes to
the (open) `diagnostics.py` file doesn't result in re-parting the file:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7b82fe92-f330-44c7-b527-c841c4545f8f
Shunsuke Shibayama
Micha Reiser
Dhruv Manilawala
Charlie Marsh
Carl Meyer
Alex Waygood