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Sigmund Cherem fac4c32530 [dyn_modules] allow extension_type key in dynamic interface.
This introduces an `extension_type` yaml key to the dynamic interface to
be able to directly refer to extension type declarations.

The validator then uses the key to search differently for the
corresponding API.

BUG=b/483895271
TEST=updated extension_type2 to explicitly use this new API.

Change-Id: I641b7491e47c031e13271825a115e75fb798c0ae
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/480780
Reviewed-by: Alexander Markov <alexmarkov@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Sigmund Cherem <sigmund@google.com>
2026-02-27 09:48:02 -08:00
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Tests for Dart dynamic modules

This folder contains tests for an experiment of implementing dynamic modules in Dart. All tests are written in the style of the language end-to-end tests.

Folder structure

Each folder consists of a single test scenario. You'll find 4 kinds of files:

  • main.dart: the host application that will later load dynamic modules. This will be the core driver of the test.

  • shared/: folder containing multiple libraries with code that can be used by both the host application and dynamic modules.

  • modules/: folder containing code private to dynamic modules. It includes libraries with common code as well as an entrypoint file per dynamic module. Entrypoint files are named entryN.dart and must define an exported dynamic module entrypoint. Note: semantics limit that two dynamic modules can't share code unless they are compiled in a chained fashion, currently the test harness focuses on compiling modules in isolation and ensuring conflicts don't arise.

  • dynamic_interface.yaml: a contract specifying what parts of the host application and libraries in shared/ are visible to dynamic modules.

Execution

We've build a test framework that frontloads compilation, so that execution of the test can be streamlined. This means that:

  • The host app will be compiled first, using dynamic_interface.yaml as a specification for AOT compilers.

  • Each and every dynamic module entrypoint in modules/ will be compiled to create a dynamic module artifact.

  • Finally an execution environment will be launched that will in turn load each dynamic module as prompted by the test logic.

Commands to drive the loading and execution of each dynamic module are controlled by a helper library in ../common/testing.dart, which uses the Dart SDK API and abstracts away differences between platforms.

Example

Refer to update_top_level. This is one of the simplest tests that illustrates the utilities and concepts in this framework.