feat: add @@meta and @meta attributes

packages/schema/src/res/stdlib.zmodel

@@ -748,3 +748,14 @@ function raw(value: String): Any {
  * Marks a field to be strong-typed JSON.
  */
 attribute @json() @@@targetField([TypeDefField])
+
+
+/**
+ * Attaches arbitrary metadata to a model or type def.
+ */
+attribute @@meta(_ name: String, _ value: Any)
+
+/**
+ * Attaches arbitrary metadata to a field.
+ */
+attribute @meta(_ name: String, _ value: Any)

packages/sdk/src/model-meta-generator.ts

@@ -3,15 +3,18 @@ import {
     DataModel,
     DataModelAttribute,
     DataModelField,
+    Expression,
     isArrayExpr,
     isBooleanLiteral,
     isDataModel,
     isDataModelField,
     isInvocationExpr,
     isNumberLiteral,
+    isObjectExpr,
     isReferenceExpr,
     isStringLiteral,
     isTypeDef,
+    ObjectExpr,
     ReferenceExpr,
     TypeDef,
     TypeDefField,
@@ -20,6 +23,7 @@ import type { RuntimeAttribute } from '@zenstackhq/runtime';
 import { lowerCaseFirst } from '@zenstackhq/runtime/local-helpers';
 import { streamAst } from 'langium';
 import { FunctionDeclarationStructure, OptionalKind, Project, VariableDeclarationKind } from 'ts-morph';
+import { match } from 'ts-pattern';
 import {
     CodeWriter,
     ExpressionContext,
@@ -362,20 +366,9 @@ function getAttributes(target: DataModelField | DataModel | TypeDefField): Runti
         .map((attr) => {
             const args: Array<{ name?: string; value: unknown }> = [];
             for (const arg of attr.args) {
-                if (isNumberLiteral(arg.value)) {
-                    let v = parseInt(arg.value.value);
-                    if (isNaN(v)) {
-                        v = parseFloat(arg.value.value);
-                    }
-                    if (isNaN(v)) {
-                        throw new Error(`Invalid number literal: ${arg.value.value}`);
-                    }
-                    args.push({ name: arg.name, value: v });
-                } else if (isStringLiteral(arg.value) || isBooleanLiteral(arg.value)) {
-                    args.push({ name: arg.name, value: arg.value.value });
-                } else {
-                    // non-literal args are ignored
-                }
+                const argName = arg.$resolvedParam?.name ?? arg.name;
+                const argValue = exprToValue(arg.value);
+                args.push({ name: argName, value: argValue });
             }
             return { name: resolved(attr.decl).name, args };
         })
@@ -602,3 +595,26 @@ function getOnUpdateAction(fieldInfo: DataModelField) {
     }
     return undefined;
 }
+
+function exprToValue(value: Expression): unknown {
+    return match(value)
+        .when(isStringLiteral, (v) => v.value)
+        .when(isBooleanLiteral, (v) => v.value)
+        .when(isNumberLiteral, (v) => {
+            let num = parseInt(v.value);
+            if (isNaN(num)) {
+                num = parseFloat(v.value);
+            }
+            if (isNaN(num)) {
+                return undefined;
+            }
+            return num;
+        })
+        .when(isArrayExpr, (v) => v.items.map((item) => exprToValue(item)))
+        .when(isObjectExpr, (v) => exprToObject(v))
+        .otherwise(() => undefined);
+}
+
+function exprToObject(value: ObjectExpr): unknown {
+    return Object.fromEntries(value.fields.map((field) => [field.name, exprToValue(field.value)]));
+}

tests/integration/tests/misc/meta-annotation.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+import { loadSchema } from '@zenstackhq/testtools';
+
+describe('`@@meta` attribute tests', () => {
+    it('generates generated into model-meta', async () => {
+        const { modelMeta } = await loadSchema(
+            `
+            model User {
+                id Int @id
+                name String @meta('private', true) @meta('level', 1)
+
+                @@meta(name: 'doc', value: 'It is user model')
+                @@meta('info', { description: 'This is a user model', geo: { country: 'US' } })
+            }
+            `
+        );
+
+        const model = modelMeta.models.user;
+        const userModelMeta = model.attributes.filter((attr: any) => attr.name === '@@meta');
+        expect(userModelMeta).toEqual(
+            expect.arrayContaining([
+                {
+                    name: '@@meta',
+                    args: expect.arrayContaining([
+                        { name: 'name', value: 'doc' },
+                        { name: 'value', value: 'It is user model' },
+                    ]),
+                },
+                {
+                    name: '@@meta',
+                    args: expect.arrayContaining([
+                        { name: 'name', value: 'info' },
+                        { name: 'value', value: { description: 'This is a user model', geo: { country: 'US' } } },
+                    ]),
+                },
+            ])
+        );
+
+        const field = model.fields.name;
+        const fieldMeta = field.attributes.filter((attr: any) => attr.name === '@meta');
+        expect(fieldMeta).toEqual(
+            expect.arrayContaining([
+                {
+                    name: '@meta',
+                    args: expect.arrayContaining([
+                        { name: 'name', value: 'private' },
+                        { name: 'value', value: true },
+                    ]),
+                },
+                {
+                    name: '@meta',
+                    args: expect.arrayContaining([
+                        { name: 'name', value: 'level' },
+                        { name: 'value', value: 1 },
+                    ]),
+                },
+            ])
+        );
+    });
+});