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Paul Berry 96efc10c68 Ignore TODOs in analyzer_cli package.
Some time ago, the analyzer team decided to adopt the convention of
using `TODO` comments to document long term issues that should persist
in the codebase, and `FIXME` comments to document short term issues
that need immediate attention.

Accordingly, it makes sense to suppress `TODO` comments from being
surfaced to the IDE "problems" view (since there can be a lot of them,
and they're not immediately actionable).  This makes VSCode's
"problems" view much more usable in "tree" mode.

Previous CLs that have made this change in other packages:
- https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/295662
- https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/325121
- https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/358980
- https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/410060
- https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/440546

Change-Id: I2df5fc3ad1da3d2654622e5e276ed3e3a841eb7f
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/442167
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
Auto-Submit: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
2025-07-24 16:02:28 -07:00
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2023-11-17 20:17:23 +00:00

SDK development code analysis

dartanalyzer used to be the tool for statically analyzing dart code at the command line. However, this tool has been replaced with dart analyze for this purpose in current SDKs and will no longer be published on pub.

Do not depend on the command line interface or other semantics in this directory as it is now an internal tool for SDK development, used as the dart2analyzer "compiler" for tools/test.py in the SDK. It is configured as part of the test runner, here.

SDK development usage

For SDK development, run analysis from the test tool to validate analysis conclusions on language samples in the testing directory. From the root of the SDK:

tools/test.py --build --use-sdk -c dart2analyzer co19 language

This will build the Dart VM and compile dartanalyzer into a snapshot, then use that snapshot while analyzing those directories under testing/. Without --use-sdk, test.py will use the source code version of the analyzer instead of the compiled one, which can be useful for debugging.