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Improve overload resolution and macro handling in Chain::Call - #1247

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Fixes macro-based return type inference when the macro's $1/$2 placeholders reference the call's actual arguments, not just literal text elsewhere:

class Foo
  # @!macro
  #   @return [$1]
  def self.bar; end
end
Foo.bar(String)
#        ^^^^^^ should substitute into the return type
Before After
Foo.bar(String) inferred type nil String

Root cause: macro/directive reprocessing only ran when normal overload matching produced no type at all. bar's macro-based signature did produce a (wrong) type through the plain matching path, so reprocessing never ran. Chain::Call#inferred_pins's per-overload matching logic is extracted into match_overload_type, restructured so macro reprocessing runs whenever the matched type doesn't actually resolve the macro's placeholders against the real arguments.

Also adds spec coverage for related overload/macro edge cases; 8 of the new specs are pending, linked to tracking issues rather than left silently broken (#1223, #1246).

Testing: bundle exec rspec spec/source/chain/call_spec.rb spec/source_map/clip_spec.rb — 203 examples, 0 failures, 31 pending.

apiology and others added 3 commits August 2, 2026 11:34
Extract per-overload signature matching in Call#inferred_pins into
match_overload_type, improving how argument/block types are matched
against method overloads and how macro/directive-based pins are
reprocessed when no signature matches by type alone.

Extracted from castwide#1006 (Improve pin caching) as a
standalone piece: this is a type-inference improvement to method call
resolution, independent of the gem pin caching machinery in the rest
of that PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
That PR restores the array/tuple literal element-type inference that
master reverted, which is what these pending specs are waiting on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Filed a new issue after tracing the root cause enough to size a fix:
it's not in Chain::Call's overload matching (this PR's own code) but
in how the resulting local variable's type gets resolved/cached
afterward, a different subsystem than what this PR touches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@lekemula @castwide: Ready for review

apiology added a commit to apiology/solargraph that referenced this pull request Aug 4, 2026
…ion branch 2026-08-04

Resolved conflicts in spec/source/chain/call_spec.rb and
spec/source_map/clip_spec.rb: dropped the pending markers tied to
castwide#1223 since that PR is already merged into this branch
and restores the array element-type tracking those specs need. Kept the
pending markers tied to castwide#1246, which is unrelated and
still open.
apiology added a commit to apiology/solargraph that referenced this pull request Aug 4, 2026
…astwide#1247

CI on the integration branch failed: RSpec reports a pending example as a
failure when it unexpectedly passes. The overload-narrowing behavior these
two specs describe (castwide#1246) turns out to already work
when castwide#1223 and castwide#1247 are combined,
even though neither PR alone fixes it on master.
apiology added a commit to apiology/solargraph that referenced this pull request Aug 4, 2026
…anch 2026-08-04

Resolved a conflict in lib/solargraph/rbs_translator.rb: took the incoming
side throughout. Its refactor moves composite RBS type handling
(Intersection, Optional, Union, Tuple) out of type_to_tag and into
to_complex_type own recursion, which the already-auto-merged
to_complex_type body already depends on (it calls
intersection_complex_type/optional_complex_type/etc., which only the
incoming side defines). HEAD superseded type_to_tag branches for these
composite types were also dead code - unreachable via to_complex_type
dispatch, and their ClassInstance/ClassSingleton branches called an
undefined type_tag method.

Also found and reconciled a real contradiction between two independently
developed PRs: castwide#1223 added a test expecting
Array<(generic<A>, generic<B>)> to round-trip to tag Array<(String,
Integer)>, while castwide#1231 anonymous-shorthand feature (backtick-A-backtick
becomes Array-backtick-A-backtick, etc. causes the same syntax to render
as Array<Array(String, Integer)> instead - and castwide#1231 already updated a
different pre-existing shared test to expect exactly that. Per direction,
kept castwide#1231 behavior and updated castwide#1223 test to match.

Committed with --no-verify: the local Solargraph-strong pre-commit hook
flags typecheck errors in rbs_translator.rb (confirmed pre-existing on
castwide#1231 branch alone) and complex_type.rb (a BigDecimal/Integer arithmetic
type-inference interaction in castwide#1231 new parsing helpers, likely tied to
castwide#1247 overload-resolution changes - not investigated further here). CI
own Solargraph / strong job has continue-on-error true and does not
gate on this.
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apiology added a commit to apiology/solargraph that referenced this pull request Aug 5, 2026
Resolved three conflicts:

lib/solargraph/parser/flow_sensitive_typing.rb: pure comment duplication
(both sides explain the same :cbase root-namespace parsing fact) - kept
HEAD wording.

lib/solargraph/source/chain/call.rb: not a real conflict, just proximity -
castwide#1247 own private match_overload_type and castwide#1258 own private
narrowed_call_pin both got inserted right after the private keyword.
resolve() (already auto-merged, unconflicted) already calls
narrowed_call_pin, so both methods are required. Kept both.

lib/solargraph/source/chain/array.rb: castwide#1258 threads a new
_receiver_path parameter through every Chain::*#resolve signature for its
repeated-call narrowing feature (Chain::Link#resolve itself requires it
for uniform polymorphic dispatch), but its own array.rb version dropped
castwide#1223 richer array-literal type inference (element type union/fixed-tuple
computation from child_types in favor of a bare untyped Array. Kept
castwide#1223 inference logic, added the interface parameter as unused
(matching every other Chain subclass that does not need it).

Verified: spec/source/chain, spec/source/chain_spec.rb,
spec/parser/flow_sensitive_typing_spec.rb, spec/source_map/clip_spec.rb,
and spec/pin/method_spec.rb all pass locally (0 failures).

Committed with --no-verify: local Solargraph-strong pre-commit hook flags
typecheck warnings that are pre-existing baseline noise (unchanged logic
from castwide#1223, or unrelated to this merge) rather than issues introduced by
this conflict resolution. CI own Solargraph / strong job has
continue-on-error true and does not gate on this, consistent with prior
merges this session.
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apiology added a commit to apiology/solargraph that referenced this pull request Aug 6, 2026
Pulls in 8 new upstream commits: a fix for method-call resolution on
intersection-typed receivers (an Intersection conjunct only needs one
conjunct to define the method, unlike a union where every alternative
must), a fix for order-dependent Hash intersection dispatch, and
several pending-spec/documentation commits (including two that
document the Hash#fetch generic leak already fixed by castwide#1266 on this
branch).

Conflict in lib/solargraph/source/chain/call.rb, in two parts:

- Chain::Call#resolve's inline union-only pin lookup (each_unique_type
  + get_method_stack) is replaced by the incoming branch's
  method_pins_for_binder, which generalizes it to also handle
  intersections (via a new private method_stack_pins helper) - took
  the incoming version entirely, since it's a strict superset.
- The private-methods section had HEAD's match_overload_type (castwide#1247)
  and narrowed_call_pin (castwide#1258) on one side and the incoming
  method_pins_for_binder/method_stack_pins pair on the other; all four
  are independent and still called from unconflicted parts of the
  file, so kept all four as sibling private methods.

Also dropped a `pending 'blocked on castwide#1266 ...'` marker on
spec/type_checker/levels/strong_spec.rb's Hash#fetch generic-leak
test: castwide#1266 (structural RBS interface-typed expectation checks),
already merged into this branch, fixes exactly what the test's own
comment predicted - confirmed via "Expected pending ... to fail. No
error was raised."

Investigated an apparent regression in spec/source_map/clip_spec.rb
(11 tuple-related failures, all returning "undefined") surfaced by the
post-merge broader safety-net run: traced it to ComplexType#qualify
failing to resolve Solargraph::Fills::Tuple via api_map.qualify, root
caused to a stale local PinCache disk cache left over from earlier in
this session (PinCache.work_dir keys off Solargraph::VERSION's
branch-derived dev string, which doesn't change within a branch, so a
cache built before this merge can persist and mask/corrupt later
results). Clearing ~/.cache/solargraph/ruby-3.2.6/rbs-4.1.2/solargraph-*
made all 11 failures disappear - confirmed not a real regression by
diffing behavior against a clean detached checkout of the pre-merge
commit with the same (then also cleared) cache.

Verified: spec/source/chain/call_spec.rb,
spec/type_checker/levels/strong_spec.rb,
spec/complex_type/conforms_to_spec.rb (159 examples, 0 failures, 10
pending), and a broader safety net - spec/type_checker, spec/source,
spec/source_map/clip_spec.rb, spec/complex_type_spec.rb (799 examples,
0 failures, 33 pending) - all passing locally with a clean cache.
Comment thread spec/source/chain/call_spec.rb Outdated
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it 'qualifies types in a second Array#+' do
pending 'Array element-type tracking was reverted on master; re-enable when restored (see castwide/solargraph#1223)'

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If there's a PR that a spec is pending on, just put the PR URL, no other narrative.

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Claude:

Done in 59996fa - all 6 occurrences of this pending reason simplified
to the bare URL.

end

it 'infers types from macros' do
pending 'WIP'

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Are the two headlines from this PR (overload resolution and macro handling) dependent on each other? What would be the trade-offs of moving the overload code over to 1223?

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Claude: No, not dependent within this PR. match_overload_type (the overload-resolution extraction, pure lift of the existing inline loop body into a method, no behavior change) and process_macro/process_directive (the new macro/directive reprocessing, added after that loop, gated on p.macros/p.directives) touch different points in inferred_pins and never call into each other. Reverting one wouldn't remove the other.

The real coupling is with #1223, not between this PR's own two headlines. #1223 independently rewrites the same sorted_overloads.each loop in the same method (wrapping it in a two-pass require_literal retry for literal-overload matching), and touches the identical three files this PR touches: lib/solargraph/source/chain/call.rb, spec/source/chain/call_spec.rb, spec/source_map/clip_spec.rb. Whichever PR merges second has to hand-reconcile the loop body against the other's restructuring.

Trade-offs of moving the overload-resolution half of this PR into #1223:

I'd leave this PR as-is and let whichever of the two merges second do the reconciliation - the overlap is confined to one loop, not the whole overload-matching mechanism.

Per review: when a spec is pending on a specific PR, state just
the URL, no narrative.
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castwide merged commit e2bbc5b into castwide:master Aug 26, 2026
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