feat: candid_service to specify actor type from Text#5878
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This is the "left adjoint" to the forgetful `principalOfActor`, tacking on an `actor` signature.
also the subparser is now column-exact (modulo escapes)
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| let adorn = List.map (let open Diag in function | ||
| | {cat="syntax" as cat; _} as msg -> { msg with cat = "candid " ^ cat; code = "M0246" } | ||
| | {cat="type" as cat; _} as msg -> { msg with cat = "candid " ^ cat; code = "M0247" } | ||
| | msg -> msg) in |
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there is also file and import and whatnot...
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(cd test/idl/ok && git grep -e ": .* error") | grep -vE "(type|syntax) error"
Implements env-shim test demonstrating the new `from_candid` feature that derives actor types from Candid service definitions. The test includes a Backend module that reads an envvar, converts it to a Principal, and casts it to a typed actor using `from_candid` with inline Candid IDL syntax. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Use pipe operator |> with unwrapped underscore placeholders for cleaner functional composition. Apply bash-style function call syntax for envVar with single string argument. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I (for now) reused the
from_candidtoken on thetypeplane.