Fix analyzer handling of record literal type inference.

This CL contains several small bug fixes:

- The context is only used for type inference if it is a record type
  with the same shape as the record literal. Previously, if the
  context was a record type with a different shape than the record
  literal, the analyzer would attempt to do an approximate match
  (using the context from any matching named fields, and from all the
  positional fields that were in common between the context and the
  literal). At first glance, it might seem like this would only matter
  for erroneous code (since record shape mismatches typically lead to
  compile-time errors). But if the context arises from a local
  variable promotion, then a mismatch doesn't lead to a compile-time
  error; it simply leads to a demotion. So the difference is
  observable for non-erroneous code.

- If one of the fields is implicitly downcast from `dynamic`, the
  static type of the field's expression remains `dynamic`. This makes
  the behavior of dynamic downcasts inside field literals consistent
  with all other implicit dynamic downcasts.

- If one of the fields is implicitly downcast from `dynamic`, the
  downcast is made to the greatest closure of the context. Previously,
  the downcast was made to the context itself, which meant that it was
  possible to create static types containing the unknown type,
  violating one of the key assumptions of the Dart type system.

- If one of the fields has a static type of `dynamic`, and `dynamic`
  is a subtype of the greatest closure of the context (e.g. because
  the context is `Object?`), no dynamic downcast is
  performed. Previously, a dynamic downcast _was_ performed, meaning
  that the static type of the resulting record literal would have
  `dynamic` in a spot where `Object?` should be.

This brings the analyzer behavior into line with the spec and the
front end, with one minor exception:

- When the front end uses the greatest closure of the context to
  implicitly downcast a field from dynamic, it uses a modified
  greatest closure algorithm where covariant instances of `_` are
  replaced with `dynamic` instead of `Object?`.

The front end's behavior in this rare case doesn't agree with the
spec; I'll address this in a future CL.

Change-Id: Ib1ab7ee4d0f63a152480704e2c0d5332446a613c
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/350983
Reviewed-by: Bob Nystrom <rnystrom@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>

https://dart.googlesource.com/sdk/+/32ab5476882c072af446d948737531101dafdd3e
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README.md

Monorepo

A gclient solution for checking out Dart and Flutter source trees

Monorepo is:

  • Optimized for Tip-of-Tree testing: The Monorepo DEPS used to check out Dart and Flutter dependencies comes from the Flutter engine DEPS with updated dependencies from Dart.

Checking out Monorepo

With depot_tools installed and on your path, create a directory for your monorepo checkout and run these commands to create a gclient solution in that directory:

mkdir monorepo
cd monorepo
gclient config --unmanaged https://dart.googlesource.com/monorepo
gclient sync -D

This gives you a checkout in the monorepo directory that contains:

monorepo/
  DEPS - the DEPS used for this gclient checkout
  commits.json - the pinned commits for Dart, flutter/engine,
                 and flutter/flutter
  tools/ - scripts used to create monorepo DEPS
engine/src/ - the flutter/buildroot repo
    flutter/ - the flutter/engine repo
    out/ - the build directory, where Flutter engine builds are created
    third_party/ - Flutter dependencies checked out by DEPS
      dart/ - the Dart SDK checkout.
        third_party - Dart dependencies, also used by Flutter
flutter/ - the flutter/flutter repo

Building Flutter engine

Flutter's instructions for building the engine are at Compiling the engine

They can be followed closely, with a few changes:

  • Googlers working on Dart do not need to switch to Fuchsia's Goma RBE, except for Windows. The GOMA_DIR enviroment variable can just point to the .cipd_bin directory in a depot_tools installation, and just goma_ctl ensure_start is sufficient.
  • The --no-prebuilt-dart-sdk option has to be added to every gn command, so that the build is set up to build and use a local Dart SDK.
  • The --full-dart-sdk option must be added to gn for the host build target if you will be building web or desktop apps.

Example build commands that work on linux:

MONOREPO_PATH=$PWD
if [[ ! $PATH =~ (^|:)$MONOREPO_PATH/flutter/bin(:|$) ]]; then
  PATH=$MONOREPO_PATH/flutter/bin:$PATH
fi

export GOMA_DIR=$(dirname $(command -v gclient))/.cipd_bin
goma_ctl ensure_start

pushd engine/src
flutter/tools/gn --goma --no-prebuilt-dart-sdk --unoptimized --full-dart-sdk
autoninja -C out/host_debug_unopt
popd

Building Flutter apps

The Flutter commands used to build and run apps will use the locally built Flutter engine and Dart SDK, instead of the one downloaded by the Flutter tool, if the --local-engine option is provided.

For example, to build and run the Flutter spinning square sample on the web platform,

MONOREPO_PATH=$PWD
cd flutter/examples/layers
flutter --local-engine=host_debug_unopt \
  -d chrome run widgets/spinning_square.dart
cd $MONOREPO_PATH

To build for desktop, specify the desktop platform device in flutter run as -d macos or -d linux or -d windows. You may also need to run the command

flutter create --platforms=windows,macos,linux

on existing apps, such as sample apps. New apps created with flutter create already include these support files. Details of desktop support are at Desktop Support for Flutter

Testing

Tests in the Flutter source tree can be run with the flutter test command, run in the directory of a package containing tests. For example:

MONOREPO_PATH=$PWD
cd flutter/packages/flutter
flutter test --local-engine=host_debug_unopt
cd $MONOREPO_PATH

Troubleshooting

Please file an issue or email the dart-engprod team with any problems with or questions about using monorepo.

We will update this documentation to address them.

  • flutter commands may download the engine and Dart SDK files for the configured channel, even though they will be using the local engine and its SDK.

Windows

  • On Windows, gclient sync needs to be run in an administrator session, because some installed dependencies create symlinks.