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tsz-tracing

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Debug tsz compiler issues using the built-in tracing infrastructure. Use when investigating type inference bugs, conformance failures, or understanding runtime behavior. Provides hierarchical trace output of solver, checker, and binder operations.

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TSZ Tracing

Use tracing before adding debug prints. It is for conformance failures, inference/narrowing/assignability surprises, and runtime path discovery.

Commands

TSZ_LOG=debug TSZ_LOG_FORMAT=tree cargo run -p tsz-cli -- file.ts
TSZ_LOG=debug TSZ_LOG_FORMAT=json cargo run -p tsz-cli -- file.ts
TSZ_LOG="tsz_solver=trace,tsz_checker=debug" TSZ_LOG_FORMAT=tree cargo run -p tsz-cli -- file.ts
TSZ_LOG="tsz_solver::narrowing=trace" TSZ_LOG_FORMAT=tree cargo run -p tsz-cli -- file.ts

Use RUST_LOG only as fallback. TSZ_LOG_FORMAT values: tree, json, text.

Workflow

  1. Reduce to the smallest .ts witness.
  2. Compare expected behavior with npx tsc --noEmit file.ts.
  3. Start broad (debug, tree), then narrow by module.
  4. Capture large traces with 2> trace.log, head, tail, rg, or grep "type_id=<id>".
  5. Use structured trace fields and spans; never add ad-hoc stdout/stderr debugging.

Useful Filters

  • Narrowing: TSZ_LOG="tsz_solver::narrowing=trace".
  • Relations/inference: TSZ_LOG="tsz_solver=debug".
  • Checker lookup/cache: TSZ_LOG="tsz_checker=debug".
  • Query events: TSZ_LOG=tsz::query_json=trace TSZ_LOG_FORMAT=json.

Read Output

Tree output nests spans, shows elapsed ms, level, module path, event, and fields. Look for the first structural divergence: wrong narrowed member, unexpected relation result, missing lazy ref resolution, cache hit/miss, or diagnostic source-span decision.

Tracing goes to stderr and is initialized only when TSZ_LOG/RUST_LOG is set. For trace examples and quick reminders, read QUICKREF.md.