Is it ever correct to call System.resolve(normalized, options) directly?

[johnjbarton]

As far as I can tell, the first argument to System.resolve() must be normalized, so everywhere we want to resolve we have to write something like:

   function normalResolve(name, refererUrl) {
     var options = {
         referer: {
           name: refererUrl
         }
       };
     return System.resolve(System.normalize(name, options));
   }

An API that did the right thing for the most common case would be more fun.

[jorendorff]

I'm all for fun, but it's really hard for a method to be both (a) an extension point where users can plug in whatever code they want and (b) well-behaved in corner cases.

System.resolve is primarily (a). It's not normally right to call it directly.

[johnjbarton]

It's not normally right to call it directly. Yes I can see that I should be using System.get() in some places where I'm calling resolve.

Nevertheless I think it would be helpful for extension point authors to know that resolve() will only be called with the result of normalize().