commit | d37c9e25f6c5a91d67c8c6528690921f16c81c65 | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Bob Nystrom <rnystrom@google.com> | Thu Feb 15 09:40:56 2024 -0800 |
committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | Thu Feb 15 09:40:56 2024 -0800 |
tree | cc3bbaac6db88bc2a346cc2ef3f29c0783af4685 | |
parent | 8040e06dadd7fe694a7213402c3c2493953bad6e [diff] |
Format guard clauses in switches. (#1383) There were enough tweaks in the formatting specific to the two contexts where the guards can appear that I ultimately decided to make new Piece classes for switch expression cases and switch statement cases. I was hoping for more code reuse, but I think it would have been harder to maintain if I jammed all of this into a single Piece class. I also slightly tweaked the indentation style of switch expression cases. When I'd first added support for switch expressions in the new formatter, I changed the style from what the old formatter had, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. Maybe I thought it made it more consistent to indent +4? Either way, once guard clauses came into play, it became clear that the old style made more sense because it gives a clearer indentation level for the `when` clause when it splits. So this change also makes switch expression formatting more similar to the old style.
The dart_style package defines an automatic, opinionated formatter for Dart code. It replaces the whitespace in your program with what it deems to be the best formatting for it. Resulting code should follow the Dart style guide but, moreso, should look nice to most human readers, most of the time.
The formatter handles indentation, inline whitespace, and (by far the most difficult) intelligent line wrapping. It has no problems with nested collections, function expressions, long argument lists, or otherwise tricky code.
The formatter turns code like this:
// BEFORE formatting if (tag=='style'||tag=='script'&&(type==null||type == TYPE_JS ||type==TYPE_DART)|| tag=='link'&&(rel=='stylesheet'||rel=='import')) {}
into:
// AFTER formatting if (tag == 'style' || tag == 'script' && (type == null || type == TYPE_JS || type == TYPE_DART) || tag == 'link' && (rel == 'stylesheet' || rel == 'import')) {}
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The formatter can also apply non-whitespace changes to make your code consistently idiomatic. You must opt into these by passing either --fix
which applies all style fixes, or any of the --fix-
-prefixed flags to apply specific fixes.
For example, running with --fix-named-default-separator
changes this:
greet(String name, {String title: "Captain"}) { print("Greetings, $title $name!"); }
into:
greet(String name, {String title = "Captain"}) { print("Greetings, $title $name!"); }
The formatter is part of the unified dart
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$ dart format test.dart
This command formats the test.dart
file and writes the result to the file.
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file in that directory or any of its subdirectories.
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, it prints the formatted code to stdout.
You may pass a -l
option to control the width of the page that it wraps lines to fit within, but you're strongly encouraged to keep the default line length of 80 columns.
If you want to use the formatter in something like a presubmit script or commit hook, you can pass flags to omit writing formatting changes to disk and to update the exit code to indicate success/failure:
$ dart format --output=none --set-exit-if-changed .
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$ pub global activate dart_style $ pub global run dart_style:format ...
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import 'package:dart_style/dart_style.dart'; main() { final formatter = DartFormatter(); try { print(formatter.format(""" library an_entire_compilation_unit; class SomeClass {} """)); print(formatter.formatStatement("aSingle(statement);")); } on FormatterException catch (ex) { print(ex); } }
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