Does not Sort in One Go

[FlorianWendelborn]

In very large and nested type definitions, I’ve noticed that this plugin needs up to 5 runs in order to fix all reported sorting issues. First time it finds ~3000, then ~500, then ~50, then 1, then 0.

This wouldn’t be a big deal for manually written code as it rarely changes in significant ways. The file in question is an auto-generated typescript definition file for an entire OpenAPI specification though

[infctr]

I'd happily accept a PR addressing the issue

[jamiehaywood]

@FlorianWendelborn did you start on a PR for fixing this? I'm experiencing the same problem with linting OpenAPI generated type files.

[adityamatt]

I have the same problem, is anyone working on it ?

[FlorianWendelborn]

I’m not working on it as I no longer need this particular solution. It’s still a good improvement though unless it’s already fixed so I’m not closing it

[jdk2pq]

I had a similar problem with an autogenerated TypeScript file from a GraphQL schema and found a workaround. Running the eslint -- fix command in a bash until loop ended up doing the trick for me. Here's the script in my package.json:

"scripts": {
    "eslint-gql":  "bash -c \"until eslint 'types/api/graphql.ts' --fix --cache; do echo \\\"linting again...\\\"; done\""
}

Not the most elegant solution, but it'll work for now. Hope it helps!

[zachbryant]

I've started working on this. Too much of a pet peeve to introduce to my repo, everyone will hate me if they have to save 5 times 😅

So far I've added a test with 400 ~500 entries, 150 450+ to be sorted. Will be a good baseline to go from

[zachbryant]

I think the reason it doesn't sort in one go is due to conflicting fixes, and the nature of reporting each fix as a swap of nodes (docs on conflicting fixes). ESLint will rerun the plugin 10 times but that's not enough for large files. That, and I noticed some error messages like a should be before A when a should be before _ is more precise. I didn't dig too much further into it before deciding that swapping nodes probably isn't the best approach moving forward.

Given all this, the fix I'm working on includes:

1. Adding an error to the declaration, where the fixer rewrites the entire body in one go, performing no swaps. As a result:
2. Changing errors to report their correct placement but not be individually sortable
   • Some errors will say $ should be at the end as a result of this
3. Modifying test cases to match this
   • Shortening the test case code to be more manageable with even more preprocessing of cases

It's slow going, but the breadth of test cases already included feel like a good safety net 🙂

[adityamatt]

Hi,
Thanks @zachbryant for looking into it.
Just following up if this is still being fixed?

[zachbryant]

@adityamatt yep, still planning to create a PR for my changes. The scale is absolutely massive but I'm in the stages of fixing tests to match the new errors

[zachbryant]

Just got all of the tests passing. I still want to do some things like testing in supported Node environments and fleshing out test cases, but it's finally come together

[adityamatt]

Happy to hear that!!

[eltonio450]

hi there :)

what is the current status of this issue :) ? What is the recommended solution ?

Thank you!