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Allow Generate Method to run on Razor documents#82973

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@davidwengier davidwengier commented Mar 28, 2026

Part of dotnet/razor#6159 and dotnet/razor#4539

Razor is adding support for Generate Method (dotnet/razor#12960) but to do that we need Roslyn to offer the code action, so that's what this does.

Notes:

  • CodeGenerationKind: This is an unfortunate addition that means Razor can implement each type of code generation separately, making review and testing easier there. The theory is that each new type Razor supports will be lit up with a change here to add a CodeGenerationKind and plumb it through appropriately, and then once all possible values are in the enum, the whole thing can be deleted.
  • CanAddTo optional parameter: I don't like optional parameters, but I thought it would be best to limit the virality of the new parameter, since it's in theory temporary. Happy to change that if you like, but it's at least easier to review this way to start with.
Microsoft Reviewers: Open in CodeFlow

How this happened, I have no idea!
davidwengier added a commit to dotnet/razor that referenced this pull request Mar 30, 2026
Part of #6159 and
#4539

Reviewing commit and a time thoroughly recommended. It's a big PR, but
each commit should be easy enough to understand and review. Also, for
the commits that are just moving methods around files, there aren't any
changes to the methods themselves.

This includes #12956 which I closed
because CI wasn't starting and GitHub was missing a commit in that PR
anyway. Sorry!

Tests are all passing locally, but some are skipped in this PR because
we need a Roslyn bump for them to pass, to something containing
dotnet/roslyn#82973. I want to get this PR in
first though, so that when Roslyn starts offering Generate Method in
Razor files, we're ready to handle it. In the meantime, the
RazorEditServiceTests provide good coverage of the important parts of
the new code, as well as all of the existing tests for all of the code
moves.

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internal static class CodeGenerationHelpers
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public static bool IsRazorSourceGeneratedDocument(Document document)
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should this be using

=> document is SourceGeneratedDocument { Identity.Generator.TypeName: "Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor.SourceGenerators.RazorSourceGenerator" };
instead?

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That would be ideal, but it doesn't work in this shared project. Would take a bunch of new IVTs:
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:(

is this resolvable when we merge Razor? If so should track it somewhere

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AFAIK the only fix is the IVTs, or SourceGeneratedDocument.Identity to become public API. The merge would allow us to strongly type some things instead of using strings, but only if a bunch of low-layered Roslyn components directly reference the Razor source generator, and I don't think thats gonna happen :)

Thinking about this a bit more though, perhaps the "better" way to go with this would be indirection through CodeGenerationContext, and have the callers (individual code fixes) provide a predicate that can call the good IsRazorSourceGeneratedDocument(). It would be a bunch more plumbing because the context isn't currently available in the right spots now, but it could be something like Func<Document, bool>? AllowsGenerateIntoHiddenCode, if it returns true, CanAddTo just skips that logic. Would remove the need for CodeGenerationKind too. I'll try that out today and if its not horrible, put up another PR as a candidate.

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Okay, I think this new approach is better and I kinda feel silly not doing this first. PR soon.

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Opened #83028

Unfortunately, it still needs the less-good IsRazorSourceGeneratedDocument check, because SourceGeneratedDocument.Identity is not available in the code style layer, but its a bit of a neater change overall, and not as much plumbing as I feared.

I'm happy to let you pick which one you prefer :)


internal static class CodeGenerationHelpers
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public static bool IsRazorSourceGeneratedDocument(Document document)
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:(

is this resolvable when we merge Razor? If so should track it somewhere

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lets take #83028

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Deal. Pleasure doing business with you as always :)

davidwengier added a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 2, 2026
Alternative to #82973

Part of dotnet/razor#6159 and
dotnet/razor#4539

Razor is adding support for Generate Method
(dotnet/razor#12960) but to do that we need
Roslyn to offer the code action, so that's what this does.
###### Microsoft Reviewers: [Open in
CodeFlow](https://microsoft.github.io/open-pr/?codeflow=https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/pull/83028)
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