fix: diagnose unspecialized reflected generics - #4473
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 8 reviews per rolling hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughReflection now rejects unspecialized generic functions during retrieval and invocation, omits them from function listings, and reports diagnostic E0165. Documentation, CLI descriptions, VM callable inspection, and runtime tests cover the specialization requirement. ChangesReflection generic specialization
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change adds E0165 diagnostics and preserves extraction and listing for reconstructable generic companions. At the current head, builtin descriptions can lose empty or terminal docstring lines, and E0165 wording can misdescribe some generic callable failures, causing inaccurate documentation and diagnostics. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_lsp2_actions/src/describe.rs`:
- Around line 1034-1042: Update the docstring rendering loop in the builtin
method output to use split('\n') instead of lines(), preserving empty bodies and
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m.docstring preserves empty /// bodies and trailing blank lines. str::lines() drops these lines in builtin method output. Use docstring.split('\n') and add unit tests for both cases.
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_lsp2_actions/src/describe.rs` around lines 1034 -
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split('\n') instead of lines(), preserving empty bodies and trailing blank lines
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler_diagnostics/src/runtime_type.rs`:
- Around line 84-97: Update unspecialized_reflected_generic to use neutral
wording covering any unspecialized callable and reflection operation, rather
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Use wording that covers every unspecialized callable and reflection operation.
unspecialized_reflected_generic is shared by Package.get_function and reflect.call_any. The VM helper also handles Object::Closure, Object::GenericFunction, and Object::BoundMethod in baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/vm.rs:2494-2526. The current message says generic function ... cannot be extracted, which is inaccurate for call_any invocation and generic bound methods.
Keep E0165, but use neutral wording and update the expected messages in runtime_type.rs and reflect_call_any.rs.
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- "generic function `{name}` cannot be extracted through reflection: reflected packages cannot supply type arguments yet"
+ "generic callable `{name}` cannot be used through reflection: reflected packages cannot supply type arguments yet"Also applies to: 176-180
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler_diagnostics/src/runtime_type.rs` around
lines 84 - 97, Update unspecialized_reflected_generic to use neutral wording
covering any unspecialized callable and reflection operation, rather than
referring specifically to extracting a generic function. Preserve diagnostic ID
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Wording was prescribed by the adversarial review round (see PR comment): the operative clause 'reflected packages cannot supply type arguments yet' is accurate for both get_function and call_any; the extraction verb matches the primary path and the get_function/call_any naming divergence is documented as intentional on the factory (runtime_type.rs doc comment). Deferring one-verb neutralization to the specialization-API design follow-up rather than re-gating tonight.
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…1582)
Review found both remaining holes had the same shape: the first round fixed
where a reflected type is *consumed* and left the places that *produce* one
untouched.
Extraction, not just invocation. Guarding `reflect.call_any` left the door next
to it open — `get_function<PromptFn>("GenericList$render_prompt")` hands back an
ordinary function value, and calling that value directly enters the body with an
empty frame and dies as `template references frame type-arg slot 0 but the frame
has 0 type args`, a VM internal error no `catch` can see. `Package.get_function`
now asks the same question right after signature reconstruction, while the caller
still has a diagnostic channel. `call_any` keeps its check for any callable that
reaches it by another door.
This narrows a contract #4473 asserted: a generic function's companion was
extractable because its declared surface mentions no `T`. That value can never be
invoked, so extraction now reports the same reflection limit the parent does; the
companion is still listed, because discovery is what a specialization API will
build on. `generic_function_companion_remains_extractable` is updated and renamed
to say so.
Produced function types. `package.functions()`' function view and
`reflect.signature` build their `type` values from scratch, so carrying the
overlay forward on the consumer side never reached them: `return_type()`,
`params()`, `signature(f).returns` and `signature(f).args` all still stranded a
runtime package's enum on the same `unreachable!`. All three producers now attach
the owning package's declarations, factored out of the overlay
`allocate_runtime_declaration_types` already built so there is one construction
of it. Four regressions, one per shape; the earlier test that claimed function
coverage only exercised `map.key_type` and is renamed to what it actually pins.
Also: write the frame metadata lane whenever definitions or exact values arrive,
not only when the frame widens — interface dispatch can hand down an overlay for
a method that declares no generics of its own. The two "is this generic
under-supplied" questions now share one accessor instead of re-matching the three
callable shapes each, and the E0165 call-site constructor joins the diagnostic
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#4473 refuses to hand out a reflected generic whose signature still mentions its own type parameters. A companion slips through that edge: `GenericList$render_prompt` takes the parent's value arguments and returns an `ai.Prompt`, so its signature reconstructs and `Package.get_function` succeeds. Its body still materializes `T` for the output-format schema, and `reflect.call_any` entered it with an empty frame, dying as `could not realize type template: template references frame type-arg slot 0 but the frame has 0 type args`. `call_any` now asks, before dispatching, whether the callable is a generic missing type arguments whose emitted templates cannot realize against the frame it carries — running the very substitution the body would run, so detection and failure cannot drift apart — and throws an E0165 saying the function needs specialization. The missing-arguments check gates the scan, so ordinary calls and non-generic companions pay nothing and keep working. The specialization API itself is a separate design item; this only removes the internal error underneath it.
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Review found both remaining holes had the same shape: the first round fixed
where a reflected type is *consumed* and left the places that *produce* one
untouched.
Extraction, not just invocation. Guarding `reflect.call_any` left the door next
to it open — `get_function<PromptFn>("GenericList$render_prompt")` hands back an
ordinary function value, and calling that value directly enters the body with an
empty frame and dies as `template references frame type-arg slot 0 but the frame
has 0 type args`, a VM internal error no `catch` can see. `Package.get_function`
now asks the same question right after signature reconstruction, while the caller
still has a diagnostic channel. `call_any` keeps its check for any callable that
reaches it by another door.
This narrows a contract #4473 asserted: a generic function's companion was
extractable because its declared surface mentions no `T`. That value can never be
invoked, so extraction now reports the same reflection limit the parent does; the
companion is still listed, because discovery is what a specialization API will
build on. `generic_function_companion_remains_extractable` is updated and renamed
to say so.
Produced function types. `package.functions()`' function view and
`reflect.signature` build their `type` values from scratch, so carrying the
overlay forward on the consumer side never reached them: `return_type()`,
`params()`, `signature(f).returns` and `signature(f).args` all still stranded a
runtime package's enum on the same `unreachable!`. All three producers now attach
the owning package's declarations, factored out of the overlay
`allocate_runtime_declaration_types` already built so there is one construction
of it. Four regressions, one per shape; the earlier test that claimed function
coverage only exercised `map.key_type` and is renamed to what it actually pins.
Also: write the frame metadata lane whenever definitions or exact values arrive,
not only when the frame widens — interface dispatch can hand down an overlay for
a method that declares no generics of its own. The two "is this generic
under-supplied" questions now share one accessor instead of re-matching the three
callable shapes each, and the E0165 call-site constructor joins the diagnostic
oracle.
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…, and pending-field metadata (B-1582) (BoundaryML#4501) Closes the reproducible half of [B-1582](https://linear.app/boundaryml2/issue/B-1582) (Aaron's VetRec umbrella). The ticket is pinned at `b992706`; every repro was re-verified at current canary head first, because three of the five had moved. ## Status | # | Ticket item | Outcome | |---|---|---| | 1 | `ai.Agent<runtime type>.run(spec)` returns `ParseFailed` | **fixed here** — runtime definitions now survive interface dispatch. One sub-case deferred, see below. | | 2 | `array.element_type().as_enum()` panics | **fixed here**, plus the sibling accessors | | 3 | reflected generic companion dies with a VM internal error | **fixed here** — diagnostic floor only; the specialization API stays a design item | | 4 | `never` in a generic LLM output panics `output_format` | **already fixed by BoundaryML#4470** — regression added, no product change | | 5 | recursive reflected fields cannot carry metadata | **fixed here** | Surface drift the ticket's snippets predate: `ai.Client` has no `render` (just `id` + `invoke`), `ai.Agent.new` has no `schema_attempts`, and the compiler emits `$spec` / `$render_prompt` / `$parse` / `$stream` companions — there is no `$build_request`. The repros were adapted accordingly. ## 1 + 2 — runtime definitions have to travel with the type A minted `type` value only means something together with the `DynTypeDefs` overlay it carries: `user.$dyn.2.Choice` is a name until the overlay maps it to a definition. Two places dropped the overlay. **Interface dispatch.** `VirtualCall` resolves the impl from the receiver's realized `Self` type and seeds the callee frame from the resolver's realized frame. The interface operand is itself a minted type value carrying the definitions of its arguments, but only its `ty` was read — so an impl body saw a name nothing defined. `ai.Agent<Out>.run` is `implements Runner<Out>`, which is exactly why the ticket's payload parsed through `baml.sap.parse<unreflect(t)>` and failed through the Agent. The overlay now flows into the callee frame alongside any method-level type arguments. **Nested type views.** `array.element_type`, `map.key_type` / `value_type`, `union.member_types`, `function.params` / `return_type` and a class field's substituted type all allocated a plain static type value, stranding every definition the inner type named. The next `values()` call then hit `unreachable!("reflected enum … must be loaded")` — a user program reaching an internal panic (B-1512). They now hand the inner type back inside the enclosing overlay, which is what `LoadType` already does for a type materialized inside a frame that has one. **Function views and signatures.** Carrying the overlay forward on the *consumer* side does not reach a type reflection **produces** rather than decomposes. `package.functions()`' function view (`function_type`) and `reflect.signature` (`alloc_arg`, plus `returns` / `errors`) built their `type` values with nothing attached, so `return_type().as_enum()`, `params().at(0).type.as_enum()`, `signature(f).returns.as_enum()` and `signature(f).args.at(0).type.as_enum()` all still hit the same `unreachable!` for a runtime package's enum. All three producers now attach the owning package's declarations — the same overlay `allocate_runtime_declaration_types` already built, factored into `declaration_defs` / `package_defs` so there is one construction of it. Four regressions, one per shape. The remaining accessors were audited: `class.fields`' `runtime_type` branch already carried the overlay, and `enum.values`, `interface.implemented_by`, `literal` and `primitive` produce no nested type. ## 3 — an unspecialized generic companion is a diagnostic, not a crash Post-BoundaryML#4473, a generic function whose signature still mentions `T` is refused at extraction with E0165. A companion like `GenericList$render_prompt` slips through that edge: it takes the parent's value arguments and returns an `ai.Prompt`, so its signature reconstructs and `Package.get_function` hands it out. Its *body* still materializes `T` for the output-format schema, and `reflect.call_any` entered it with an empty frame and died as `could not realize type template: template references frame type-arg slot 0 but the frame has 0 type args`. The check asks whether the callable is a generic missing type arguments *whose emitted templates cannot realize against the frame it carries* — running the very substitution the body would run, so detection and failure cannot drift apart — and throws a new E0165 saying the function needs specialization. The gate is the missing-arguments check, so ordinary calls and non-generic companions pay nothing and keep working. It runs at **extraction**, in `Package.get_function`, not only in `reflect.call_any`. Guarding the call alone left the hole open: a caller can ask for the companion through an ordinary function-type contract and then call the value directly, which enters the body with an empty frame and fails as an internal error `catch` cannot see. `call_any` keeps the same check for any callable that reaches it by another door. **This narrows a contract BoundaryML#4473 asserted.** `generic_function_companion_remains_extractable` pinned that a generic function's companion *is* extractable, because its declared surface mentions no `T`. B-1582 shows what that value is worth — it can never be invoked, and invoking it is an uncatchable crash — so extraction now reports the same reflection limit the parent does. That test is updated in place and renamed. The companion is still **listed** by `package.functions()`, which is deliberate: discovery is what a future specialization API will build on. The asymmetry between "listed" and "extractable" is worth a ruling; the stdlib doc for `functions()` currently says unspecialized generics are omitted, which was already inaccurate for companions before this PR. **The specialization API itself is deliberately not designed here** and remains Antonio's item; this PR only removes the internal error underneath it. ## 4 — verification `GenericList$render_prompt<never>(…)` and a direct `GenericList<never>(…)` were already covered by BoundaryML#4470's suite and still return a catchable E0164. The one shape that could plausibly have escaped `first_non_data_type`'s walk — `never` inside a container, inside a *runtime-minted* class — is now pinned too, and it reports the field path correctly. No product change. ## 5 — metadata on recursive pending fields `reflect.class.PendingType` gains `meta(alias =, description =, docstring =, other =) -> reflect.WithMeta<PendingType>`, mirroring `type.meta`, and `Builder.field` accepts `type | WithMeta<type> | PendingType | WithMeta<PendingType>`. The wrapper is stored as the field root so the rows survive the atomic recursive-group build, and when the referenced group is already frozen the metadata is re-attached to the resolved type. `type.meta` and the new method now share one allocator. Regressions cover read-back through `fields()`, the rendered LLM schema (the alias is the serialized key, so it has to reach render), and the already-resolved-reference path. ## Deferred Inline `unreflect(expr)` written directly in a **class** type-argument position — `ai.Agent<unreflect(t)>` rather than `type Out = unreflect(t)` — is call-scoped by design: `infer.rs` publishes the parameter's `occurrence_ty` (its first bound, or `unknown`) as the expression's static type. So the constructed `Agent` is statically `Agent<unknown>` while the instance carries the real runtime class, and the two disagree. That inconsistency surfaces as `UnresolvedVirtualCall { method: "run" }`, and the struct-literal spelling `Holder<unreflect(t)> { … }` reaches MIR with an error-recovery type and panics in `runtime_ty.rs`. Both are B-1512 violations, but fixing them means ruling on whether a runtime type parameter may escape its call — a BEP-066 scoping question, not a propagation bug. Written up separately with the three options. ## Two properties this does *not* claim **Identity does not cross dispatch, only definitions do.** `type.of<T>()` inside an interface-impl method re-mints: the impl frame carries realized types plus the overlay, not the caller's exact `TypeValue`s, so the type value the method sees is `==`-distinct from the one the caller passed even though it names the same definition and renders and parses identically. That is pre-existing (the direct call path threads exact values through `LoadType(TypeArgRef)`; the resolver path never did) and it is the BEP-066 I-1 surface worth knowing about. Nothing here depends on mint equality; making identity survive dispatch means carrying exact values through `realize_frame`, which is a separate change. **The overlay is cloned per virtual dispatch.** Merging the interface operand's definitions into the callee frame is `O(defs)` allocations on every interface call that carries any — cheap in absolute terms (an `IndexMap` of pointers, only for calls whose interface argument is a runtime type; a static interface operand short-circuits on `is_empty`), but it is a clone where the type value already owns one. `Arc<DynTypeDefs>` is the lever if this ever shows up in an interface-heavy profile; it would make both this merge and the frame-metadata lane refcount bumps. ## Verification Focused: `type_kinds`, `runtime_type_bindings`, `reflect_call_any`, `runtime_builders_and_pending_types`, `output_format_non_data`, `runtime_package_compile`. Full pinned gate below. BoundaryML#4459's behavior (concrete `AnyFunction` `Returns`/`Throws` inference, generic render identity) is untouched and its tests pass. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added metadata support for recursive pending fields, including aliases, descriptions, docstrings, and custom properties. - Preserved runtime type information across nested fields, collections, unions, interfaces, and reflected outputs. - Improved reflective calls involving parameterized types and dynamic interfaces. - **Bug Fixes** - Missing generic type arguments now produce clear, catchable compilation diagnostics. - Invalid runtime-generated schemas report diagnostics instead of causing a panic. - Improved parsing and introspection of reflected agent outputs and interface methods. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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baml.reflect.errors.CompilationErrorchannel onreflect.call_anyRoot cause and review correction
Package.get_functionasks the VM to reconstruct a callable signature. For an unspecialized generic original, reconstruction returnsNone; the old code silently returnedOk(None). The contract-mismatch path applies only when a signature was successfully reconstructed but does not satisfy the requestedAnyFunctionpins.The first fix incorrectly gated on whether a function declared generic parameters. Generated
$render_prompt,$parse, and$streamcompanions inherit their source function's generic parameters but reconstruct successfully with an empty supplied frame. This round instead diagnoses only an actual signature-reconstruction failure and uses the VM helper solely to distinguish an incomplete generic callable from a genuinely non-callable value. Reconstructable companions remain extractable and listed.The diagnostic is now E0165:
Package.get_functionintentionally supplies the package-qualifieddisplay_local_name;reflect.call_anyhas no package context and supplies the bare declared name.No specialization API or compiler inference behavior is added. That design remains explicitly reserved for the human.
reflect.signaturestill uses its older non-callable error for an unspecialized generic; correcting that requires a throws-channel/API decision and is deliberately deferred.Validation
AnyFunction<Returns = string, Throws = never>controlcall_anycatch updated for the declaredCompilationErrorchannelcall_any, CLI describe, and type-kind coverage9d24fbaeb: formatting passed; 38 diagnostics/CLI/type-kind tests passed; all 40reflect_call_anyandruntime_package_compiletests passed (one pre-existing skip)Summary by CodeRabbit