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Danny Tuppeny 4d07f9ace4 [vm_service] Use empty lists instead of null for non-optional fields when parsing JSON
Change 64060a8ddf accidentally lost `?? []` for non-optional fields when parsing JSON. This change restores that (in `generate_dart_common.dart`), along with some minor tweaks to get the codegen to work on Windows.

For reasons I don't understand, the generated files were formatted differently to how the formatter formats them on my machine today, which unfortunately makes the diff larger than the intended change.

Change-Id: Ibadaa3ec4c6af4e636c1e5ffd2c7e792bc1e8a14
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/497600
Reviewed-by: Ben Konyi <bkonyi@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Ben Konyi <bkonyi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Samuel Rawlins <srawlins@google.com>
2026-04-24 08:03:51 -07:00
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Package validation

The packages in pkg/ are automatically validated on the LUCI CI bots. The validation is largely done by the tools/package_deps package; it can be tested locally via:

dart tools/package_deps/bin/package_deps.dart

Packages which are published

There are several packages developed in pkg/ which are published to pub. Validation of these packages is particularly important because the pub tools are not used for these packages during development; we get our dependency versions from the DEPS file. It's very easy for the dependencies specified in a package's pubspec file to get out of date wrt the packages and versions actually used.

In order to better ensure we're publishing correct packages, we validate some properties of the pubspec files on our CI system. These validations include:

  • that the dependencies listed in the pubspec are used in the package
  • that all the packages used by the source are listed in the pubspec
  • that we don't use relative path deps to pkg/ or third_party/ packages

Packages which are not published

For packages in pkg/ which we do not intend to be published, we put the following comment in the pubspec.yaml file:

# This package is not intended for consumption on pub.dev. DO NOT publish.
publish_to: none

These pubspecs are still validated by the package validation tool. The contents are more informational as the pubspecs for these packages are not consumed by the pub tool or ecosystem.

We validate:

  • that the dependencies listed in the pubspec are used in the package
  • that all the packages used by the source are listed in the pubspec
  • that a reference to a pkg/ package is done via a relative path dependency

Adding new packages

Run gclient sync to re-generate .dart_tool/package_config.json after adding a new package.

Testing packages

Currently dart test can't be used to run the tests, use test.py as usual. E.g. the command ./tools/test.py -n...<path> runs all tests with prefix <path>.