Add a canary setting to avoid caching AST viewer queries (#818)

When codeql library developers are working on PrintAST queries, it is
not easy to use the AST Viewer. The AST Viewer caches results so that
multiple calls to view the AST of the same file are nearly
instantaneous.

However, this breaks down if you are changing the actual queries that
perform AST viewing. In this case, you do not want the cache to be
active.

This commit adds an undocumented setting that prevents caching. To
enable, set:

```
"codeQL.isCanary": true,
"codeQL.astViewer.disableCache": true
```

Note that *both* settings must be true for this to work.

This behaviour and all canary behaviour should be documented somewhere.
I will add that later.

Author: aeisenberg

extensions/ql-vscode/src/config.ts

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ const ROOT_SETTING = new Setting('codeQL');
 
 // Global configuration
 const TELEMETRY_SETTING = new Setting('telemetry', ROOT_SETTING);
+const AST_VIEWER_SETTING = new Setting('astViewer', ROOT_SETTING);
 const GLOBAL_TELEMETRY_SETTING = new Setting('telemetry');
 
 export const LOG_TELEMETRY = new Setting('logTelemetry', TELEMETRY_SETTING);
@@ -279,3 +280,8 @@ export const CANARY_FEATURES = new Setting('canary', ROOT_SETTING);
 export function isCanary() {
   return !!CANARY_FEATURES.getValue<boolean>();
 }
+
+/**
+ * Avoids caching in the AST viewer if the user is also a canary user.
+ */
+export const NO_CACHE_AST_VIEWER = new Setting('disableCache', AST_VIEWER_SETTING);

extensions/ql-vscode/src/contextual/templateProvider.ts

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import {
 } from './keyType';
 import { FullLocationLink, getLocationsForUriString, TEMPLATE_NAME } from './locationFinder';
 import { qlpackOfDatabase, resolveQueries } from './queryResolver';
+import { isCanary, NO_CACHE_AST_VIEWER } from '../config';
 
 /**
  * Run templated CodeQL queries to find definitions and references in
@@ -141,7 +142,9 @@ export class TemplatePrintAstProvider {
     if (!document) {
       throw new Error('Cannot view the AST. Please select a valid source file inside a CodeQL database.');
     }
-    const queryResults = await this.cache.get(document.uri.toString(), progress, token);
+    const queryResults = this.shouldCache()
+      ? await this.cache.get(document.uri.toString(), progress, token)
+      : await this.getAst(document.uri.toString(), progress, token);
 
     return new AstBuilder(
       queryResults, this.cli,
@@ -150,6 +153,10 @@ export class TemplatePrintAstProvider {
     );
   }
 
+  private shouldCache() {
+    return !(isCanary() && NO_CACHE_AST_VIEWER.getValue<boolean>());
+  }
+
   private async getAst(
     uriString: string,
     progress: ProgressCallback,