Prevent too early evaluation

[gogonzo]

When server_args contains element being a language then it is being evaluated by do.call. We call do.call when calling modules in teal. Adding quote = TRUE to the call fixes the problem. See an example app:

tm_query <- function(query) {
  module(
    ui = function(id) {
      ns <- NS(id)
      verbatimTextOutput(ns("out"))
    },
    server = function(id, data, query) {
      moduleServer(id, function(input, output, session) {
        output$out <- renderPrint({
          q <- eval_code(data(), query)
          print(q)
        })
      })
    },
    server_args = list(query = query)
  )
}


library(teal.code)
library(teal.data)
pkgload::load_all("teal")

app <- init(
  data = teal_data() |> within(a <- iris),
  modules = modules(
    tm_query(query = quote(a_filtered <- subset(a, a$Species == "setosa")))
  )
)

runApp(app)

Alternative is to ignore this error and replace quote() with expression() as expression is not evaluated in do.call.

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Code Coverage Summary

Filename                          Stmts    Miss  Cover    Missing
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R/checkmate.R                        24       0  100.00%
R/dummy_functions.R                  67      11  83.58%   41, 43, 85-93
R/get_rcode_utils.R                  12       0  100.00%
R/include_css_js.R                   22      17  22.73%   12-38, 76-82
R/init.R                             99      42  57.58%   150-159, 161, 173-194, 219-222, 229-235, 238-239, 241
R/landing_popup_module.R             25      25  0.00%    61-87
R/module_bookmark_manager.R         158     127  19.62%   47-68, 88-138, 143-144, 156, 203, 238-315
R/module_data_summary.R             203      37  81.77%   26-54, 68, 78, 232, 263-267
R/module_filter_data.R               64       2  96.88%   22-23
R/module_filter_manager.R           230      57  75.22%   56-62, 73-82, 90-95, 108-112, 117-118, 291-314, 340, 367, 379, 386-387
R/module_init_data.R                 74       0  100.00%
R/module_nested_tabs.R              226      85  62.39%   40-136, 168, 193-195, 312, 344
R/module_snapshot_manager.R         216     146  32.41%   89-95, 104-113, 121-133, 152-153, 170-180, 184-199, 201-208, 215-230, 234-238, 240-246, 249-262, 265-273, 303-317, 320-331, 334-340, 354
R/module_teal_data.R                149      76  48.99%   41-144
R/module_teal_lockfile.R            131      44  66.41%   32-36, 44-56, 59-61, 75, 85-87, 99-101, 109-118, 121, 123, 125-126, 160-161
R/module_teal_with_splash.R          12      12  0.00%    22-38
R/module_teal.R                     195      87  55.38%   48-143, 158, 184-185, 224
R/module_transform_data.R           110       4  96.36%   20, 59, 129-130
R/modules.R                         278      71  74.46%   171-175, 230-233, 354-374, 382, 532-538, 551-559, 574-622, 655, 667-675
R/reporter_previewer_module.R        19       2  89.47%   30, 34
R/show_rcode_modal.R                 24      24  0.00%    17-42
R/tdata.R                            14      14  0.00%    19-61
R/teal_data_module-eval_code.R       24       0  100.00%
R/teal_data_module-within.R           7       0  100.00%
R/teal_data_module.R                 20       0  100.00%
R/teal_data_utils.R                  10       0  100.00%
R/teal_reporter.R                    68       6  91.18%   69, 77, 125-126, 129, 146
R/teal_slices-store.R                29       0  100.00%
R/teal_slices.R                      63       0  100.00%
R/teal_transform_module.R            45       0  100.00%
R/TealAppDriver.R                   353     353  0.00%    52-735
R/utils.R                           253      38  84.98%   405-454
R/validate_inputs.R                  32       0  100.00%
R/validations.R                      58      37  36.21%   110-377
R/zzz.R                              15      11  26.67%   4-18
TOTAL                              3329    1328  60.11%

Diff against main

Filename      Stmts    Miss  Cover
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TOTAL             0       0  +100.00%

Results for commit: 9344594

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Unit Tests Summary

  1 files   27 suites   10m 37s ⏱️
276 tests 272 ✅ 4 💤 0 ❌
537 runs  533 ✅ 4 💤 0 ❌

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Unit Test Performance Difference

Test Suite	$Status$	Time on main	$±Time$	$±Tests$	$±Skipped$	$±Failures$	$±Errors$
module_teal	💔	$147.83$	$+6.51$	$+1$	$0$	$0$	$0$
shinytest2-reporter	💔	$66.16$	$+2.06$	$0$	$0$	$0$	$0$

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Test Suite	$Status$	Time on main	$±Time$	Test Case
module_teal	💔	$2.83$	$+1.63$	sets_filters_from_mapping_mod_to_module_s_FilteredData_when_module_specific
module_teal	👶		$+1.04$	srv_teal_module.teal_module_passes_quoted_arguments_to_the_teal_module_server_call

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[llrs-roche]

I'm not that familiar with expressions, calls and languages, this seems a simple fix to the issue. But I leave the review for other that might understand better the implications of this change.

I noticed that callModule is "soft-deprecated":

Note: As of Shiny 1.5.0, we recommend using moduleServer() instead of callModule(), because the syntax is a little easier to understand, and modules created with moduleServer can be tested with testServer().

I don't think this would help on line 344, but perhaps is something to keep in mind.

[averissimo]

edit: nevermind about this first sentence, rethinking it doesn't make sense for quoted arguments I think this responsibility is on the module developer. See example below that works in main with only 1 line changing (query <- enquote(query)

I don't see any bad consequences on this change, the PR is fine and I tested with different types of native language objects.

I left a comment about adding a test for this so we don't risk a regression in the future.

pkgload::load_all("teal", export_all = FALSE)
tm_query <- function(query) {
  query <- enquote(query)
  module(
    ui = function(id) {
      ns <- NS(id)
      shiny::tagList(
        verbatimTextOutput(ns("out")),
        verbatimTextOutput(ns("out2"))
      )
    },
    server = function(id, data, query, yada) {
      moduleServer(id, function(input, output, session) {
        output$out <- renderPrint({
          q <- eval_code(data(), query)
          print(q)
        })
      })
    },
    server_args = list(query = query)
  )
}


library(teal.code)
library(teal.data)

app <- init(
  data = teal_data() |> within(a <- iris),
  modules = modules(
    tm_query(query = quote(a_filtered <- subset(a, a$Species == "setosa")))
  )
)

runApp(app)

[llrs-roche]

The new test passes on this branch and not on main, and this PR also fixes the issue on insightsengineering/teal.modules.general#824 (comment).
I updated the branch to run the CI again and be able to merge it soon