The following expression caused a panic in hclwrite:
a = foo.*
This was due to the unusual dotted form of a full splat (where the splat
operator is at the end of the expression) being generated with an
invalid source range. In the full splat case, the end of the range was
uninitialized, which caused the token slice to be empty, and thus the
panic.
This commit fixes the bug, adds test coverage, and includes some bonus
tests for other splat expression cases.
HCL uses grapheme cluster segmentation to produce accurate "column"
indications in diagnostic messages and other human-oriented source
location information. Each new major version of Unicode introduces new
codepoints, some of which are defined to combine with other codepoints to
produce a single visible character (grapheme cluster).
We were previously using the rules from Unicode 9.0.0. This change
switches to using the segmentation rules from Unicode 12.0.0, which is
the latest version at the time of this commit and is also the version of
Unicode used for other purposes by the Go 1.14 runtime.
HCL does not use text segmentation results for any purpose that would
affect the meaning of decoded data extracted from HCL files, so this
change will only affect the human-oriented source positions generated for
files containing characters that were newly-introduced in Unicode 10, 11,
or 12. (Machine-oriented uses of source location information are based on
byte offsets and not affected by text segmentation.)
Some HCL callers make the (reasonable) assumption that the overall source
range of an expression will be a superset of all of the ranges of its
child expressions, for purposes such as extraction of source code
snippets, parse tree annotation in hclwrite, text editor analysis
functions like "go to reference", etc.
The IndexExpr type was not previously honoring that assumption, since its
source range was placed around only the bracket portion. That is a good
region to use when reporting errors relating to the index operation, but
it is not a faithful representation of the full extent of the expression.
In order to meet both of these requirements at once, IndexExpr now has
both SrcRange covering the entire expression and BracketRange covering
the index part delimited by brackets. We can then use BracketRange in
our error messages but return SrcRange as the result of the general
Range method that is common to all expression types.
Our error message for the ambiguous situation recommends doing this, but
the parser didn't actually previously allow it. Now we'll accept the form
that the error message recommends.
As before, we also accept a template with an interpolation sequence as
a disambiguation, but the error message doesn't mention that because it's
no longer idiomatic to use an inline string template containing just a
single interpolation sequence.
