Implement GenericRequirement support for member type disambiguation #1283
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Resolves #1087
Context
This PR adds
implements
toType
& co, so that it is now possible to preserve information about protocol requirements during deserialization of variables and method-related types.In particular, for cases like:
method's argument type's
actualTypeName
is resolved to(Equatable)
instead of simplyT
.Before this PR, it was resolved to
nil
.Let's also consider the following use case with protocol composition:
here, variable's type is resolved as a
ProtocolComposition
type withCodable
andEquatable
Protocol
instances bound together, that is,actualTypeName
becomes(Codable & Equatable)
respectively.