Handle associated type shorthand (`T::Item`)

This is only allowed for generic parameters (including `Self` in traits), and
special care needs to be taken to not run into cycles while resolving it,
because we use the where clauses of the generic parameter to find candidates for
the trait containing the associated type, but the where clauses may themselves
contain instances of short-hand associated types.

In some cases this is even fine, e.g. we might have `T: Trait<U::Item>, U:
Iterator`. If there is a cycle, we'll currently panic, which isn't great, but
better than overflowing the stack...

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crates/ra_hir/src/resolve.rs b/crates/ra_hir/src/resolve.rs
index 254d1a964..39f8e1d8a 100644
--- a/crates/ra_hir/src/resolve.rs
+++ b/crates/ra_hir/src/resolve.rs
@@ -344,6 +344,13 @@ impl Resolver {
             })
             .flat_map(|params| params.where_predicates.iter())
     }
+
+    pub(crate) fn generic_def(&self) -> Option<crate::generics::GenericDef> {
+        self.scopes.iter().find_map(|scope| match scope {
+            Scope::GenericParams(params) => Some(params.def),
+            _ => None,
+        })
+    }
 }
 
 impl Resolver {