Use bitflags for oxc_regular_expression::ast::Flags

[rzvxa]

Currently our oxc_ast::ast::literal::RegExpFlags is defined using the bitflags macro.

oxc/crates/oxc_ast/src/ast/literal.rs

Lines 156 to 197 in af69393

	bitflags! {
	/// Regular expression flags.
	///
	/// <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_expressions#advanced_searching_with_flags>
	#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Hash)]
	pub struct RegExpFlags: u8 {
	/// Global flag
	///
	/// Causes the pattern to match multiple times.
	const G = 1 << 0;
	/// Ignore case flag
	///
	/// Causes the pattern to ignore case.
	const I = 1 << 1;
	/// Multiline flag
	///
	/// Causes `^` and `$` to match the start/end of each line.
	const M = 1 << 2;
	/// DotAll flag
	///
	/// Causes `.` to also match newlines.
	const S = 1 << 3;
	/// Unicode flag
	///
	/// Causes the pattern to treat the input as a sequence of Unicode code points.
	const U = 1 << 4;
	/// Sticky flag
	///
	/// Perform a "sticky" search that matches starting at the current position in the target string.
	const Y = 1 << 5;
	/// Indices flag
	///
	/// Causes the regular expression to generate indices for substring matches.
	const D = 1 << 6;
	/// Unicode sets flag
	///
	/// Similar to the `u` flag, but also enables the `\\p{}` and `\\P{}` syntax.
	/// Added by the [`v` flag proposal](https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regexp-set-notation).
	const V = 1 << 7;
	}
	}

While the oxc_regular_expression::ast::Flags is defined as such:

oxc/crates/oxc_regular_expression/src/ast.rs

Lines 26 to 40 in af69393

	#[ast]
	#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
	#[generate_derive(CloneIn, ContentEq, ContentHash)]
	#[cfg_attr(feature = "serialize", derive(Serialize, Tsify))]
	pub struct Flags {
	pub span: Span,
	pub global: bool,
	pub ignore_case: bool,
	pub multiline: bool,
	pub unicode: bool,
	pub sticky: bool,
	pub dot_all: bool,
	pub has_indices: bool,
	pub unicode_sets: bool,
	}

I suggest we refactor Flags to use bitflags and maybe rename it to RegularExpressionFlags. Ideally, we should remove the RegExpFlags and share this flag and its parser(probably through RegularExpressionFlags::try_from("giv")) throughout the project.

We can still keep a FlagsOption that implements Into<RegularExpressionFlags> if we want to allow users to use a struct to pass in flags to the pattern parser.

cc @leaysgur @overlookmotel

[rzvxa]

In regards to the span field on the Flags if we find it absolutely necessary to have this field we can extract the flags to a bitflag and define it as such:

 #[ast] 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)] 
 #[generate_derive(CloneIn, ContentEq, ContentHash)] 
 #[cfg_attr(feature = "serialize", derive(Serialize, Tsify))] 
 pub struct Flags { 
     pub span: Span, 
     pub flags: RegularExpressionFlags
 } 

However, I think this span is redundant since we can easily obtain it at the RegularExpression level which is the only place we really would access this flag normally.

[leaysgur]

I suggest we refactor Flags to use bitflags and maybe rename it to RegularExpressionFlags.

I agree with this.

In regards to the span field on the Flags
However, I think this span is redundant

From the perspective of oxc_parser, I think this is true.

But from the perspective of the independent oxc_regular_expression crate, it may be necessary...?

[rzvxa]

But from the perspective of the independent oxc_regular_expression crate, it may be necessary...?

In what context do we need this information? Are we looking also to produce an oxc_regular_expression::ast::RegularExpression for regex constructor calls?

How I look at it is that a flag always contains valid values and depending on the number of flags that are true we can calculate its span from a starting point, So in the RegularExpression type we can calculate it like this:

impl<'a> RegularExpression<'a> {
    pub fn flags_span(&self) -> Span {
        Span::new(self.pattern.span.end + 1 /* skip `/` in the middle */, self.span.end)
    }
}

And we can also have this method on the RegularExpressionFlags:

impl RegularExpressionFlags {
    pub fn active_flags(&self) -> u8 {
        return number_of_active_flags
    }
}

Where do users care for flags without also having access to their regex literal?

[leaysgur]

Are we looking also to produce an oxc_regular_expression::ast::RegularExpression for regex constructor calls?

Yes, I was thinking in case of that.
However, the position of the flag text also should be known, and it seems OK for now. 😅 (sorry)

[leaysgur]

Closing, oxc_regular_expression::ast::Flags is removed in #6262