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🐛 Bug Fix

Fixes Inspector showing stale properties after compilation errors.

Part of v0.0.5 Phase 0, Week 1, Task 5 - Quick win bug fix that improves developer experience.

📋 Problem

When a .ferris script failed to compile, the Godot Inspector would continue showing properties from the last successful compilation. This created confusion because:

  • Users saw outdated properties that no longer existed
  • Switching scripts after errors didn't clear the stale properties
  • Manual scene reload was required to see changes

✅ Solution

Added clear_on_error() method that:

  1. Clears internal state (program, env, script_loaded flag)
  2. Notifies Inspector to refresh via notify_property_list_changed()
  3. Logs state clear for debugging

Now when compilation fails in load_script(), all three error paths call clear_on_error():

  • File open failure
  • Compilation failure
  • Execution failure

🧪 Testing

Manual Testing Required

Test 1: Properties clear on compilation error

  1. Attach valid .ferris script with @export properties
  2. Verify properties show in Inspector
  3. Edit script to introduce type error (e.g., let x: i32 = "string")
  4. Save and observe:
    • ✅ Expected: Inspector clears properties immediately
    • ❌ Before fix: Properties lingered

Test 2: Properties repopulate on fix

  1. Fix the type error
  2. Save and observe:
    • ✅ Expected: Inspector repopulates with properties
    • ❌ Before fix: Required scene reload

Test 3: Rapid edits

  1. Toggle between valid/invalid script states quickly
  2. ✅ Expected: Inspector always reflects current compilation state

Test 4: Multiple scripts

  1. Add second .ferris script to different node
  2. Break one script, keep other valid
  3. ✅ Expected: Only broken script clears its properties

Test 5: File not found

  1. Set invalid script path (file doesn't exist)
  2. ✅ Expected: Inspector shows no properties

Automated Testing

  • ✅ All 883 workspace tests passing
  • ✅ Build successful (0 warnings, 0 errors)
  • ✅ Clippy clean

📚 Documentation

  • Updated docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md to mark issue as Fixed in v0.0.5
  • Added detailed rustdoc comments explaining why notify_property_list_changed() is called on error

🔍 Edge Cases Handled

  1. First compilation failure (no previous state): ✅ Works (nothing to clear)
  2. Rapid alternating success/failure: ✅ Works (each reload clears or populates)
  3. Multiple scripts in same scene: ✅ Works (per-instance state)
  4. File not found errors: ✅ Clears properties
  5. Runtime/execution errors: ✅ Clears properties

🚀 Impact

User-Facing Benefits:

  • Immediate visual feedback when script breaks
  • No manual scene reload required
  • Clear indication that script has errors (empty Inspector)

Developer Experience:

  • Eliminates confusion about stale properties
  • Faster iteration cycle
  • More predictable behavior

📝 Implementation Notes

  • Based on existing notify_property_list_changed() pattern used for successful compilation
  • Minimal code change (1 new method, 3 call sites)
  • Zero breaking changes to existing functionality
  • No performance impact (only called on error path)

🔗 Related


Ready for manual testing in Godot - all automated checks pass!

…ase 0, Week 1)

- Created span.rs module with Position and Span structs
  - Position tracks line, column, and byte offset
  - Span tracks start/end positions with merge() support
  - 31 comprehensive unit tests with 100% coverage

- Enhanced AST with span support
  - Added span() accessor methods to Stmt and Expr
  - Re-exported Span from ast module for backward compatibility
  - All AST nodes now expose their source locations

- Updated parser infrastructure
  - Added span_from() helper for multi-token constructs
  - Parser tracks line/column positions from lexer
  - Note: Byte offset tracking deferred as enhancement

- Added integration tests
  - 5 new tests verify span tracking on functions, expressions
  - Test span merge functionality and accessors
  - Total: 883 tests passing across workspace (568 compiler, 110 runtime, 38 test_harness, etc.)

- Updated type_checker to use new span API
  - Changed span.line/span.column to span.line()/span.column()
  - All 568 compiler tests pass with new span implementation

This implements tasks 1-4 from v0.0.5 Phase 0 Week 1:
- ✅ Define Span and Position structs
- ✅ Add span field to all AST nodes
- ✅ Update parser to track spans from tokens
- ✅ Update tests with span assertions

Related to #v0.0.5, LSP foundation work
- Mark tasks 1-4 as completed (span tracking implementation)
- Add implementation notes about byte offset deferral and point spans
- Document backward compatibility approach with ast::Span re-export
- Note Inspector fix (task 5) remains pending in separate PR
- Add clear_on_error() method to FerrisScriptNode
  - Clears internal state (program, env, script_loaded)
  - Notifies Inspector to refresh via notify_property_list_changed()
  - Logs state clear for debugging

- Call clear_on_error() in all load_script() error paths:
  - File open failure
  - Compilation failure
  - Execution failure

- Update TROUBLESHOOTING.md to mark issue as fixed in v0.0.5

Fixes Inspector showing stale properties after compilation errors.
Previously, properties from last successful compilation would linger,
confusing users. Now Inspector automatically clears on error, making
it obvious the script is broken.

Related to v0.0.5 Phase 0 Week 1 Task 5
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codecov bot commented Oct 14, 2025

Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 85.79545% with 25 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
crates/godot_bind/src/lib.rs 0.00% 9 Missing ⚠️
crates/compiler/src/type_checker.rs 93.33% 8 Missing ⚠️
crates/compiler/src/ast.rs 50.00% 4 Missing ⚠️
crates/compiler/src/parser.rs 33.33% 4 Missing ⚠️

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