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sdk/pkg/frontend_server
Anna Gringauze 14eeb7507f First version of incremental DDC mode for expression compilation
- Support evaluate() calls from VM service in expression compiler
  - emit all accessed symbols, types, constants, extension symbols,
    and imports as part of synthetic evaluation function
    - Note: this fixes missing symbol issues in evaluateInFrame()
      as well
  - update expression evaluation tests
  - fix expression compilation broken after hot reload

See widget inspector layout explorer, a result of evaluate() call:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16UdSE5_V1ZRXAf2KeBxNwYNHMfo1RbnT/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-HZcPm68VbsVzrZ672CApvA

Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/41480
Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/44979
Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/44713
Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/44933
Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/44813
Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/44686
Change-Id: I96c74578c51503adbc4bfe6d6e6112319addc959
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/188400
Commit-Queue: Anna Gringauze <annagrin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Shahan <nshahan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Zhou <markzipan@google.com>
2021-03-09 17:23:05 +00:00
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The frontend_server package is used by both the flutter command line tool and the frontend_server_client package (used by webdev and package:test).

API Stability

Changes to the command line API or behavior should be tested against the follwing test suites (in addition to normal HHH testing):

Otherwise these changes will need to be carefully coordinated with the flutter tooling and frontend_server_client teams.

This API stability does not cover any of the source code APIs.

Stable subset

  • The frontend_server kernel compilation and expression evaluation for kernel should be considered "stable".
  • The frontend_server JavaScript compilation is semi-stable, but clients should anticipate coordinated breaking changes in the future.
  • The frontend_server JavaScript expression evaluation is experimental and is expected to change significantly from Dec 2020 through the end of 2021.
  • Specific flags like the --flutter-widget-cache may be added for experimentation and should not be considered stable.