dart_eval 0.7.1

A flexible Dart bytecode compiler and interpreter written in Dart, enabling dynamic execution and code push for AOT Dart apps.

0.7.1

• Eliminate requirement to call setup() on the Runtime. Setup is now invoked automatically and the setup method is deprecated.
• Add experimental wrapper binding generator to the CLI (thanks to @a-wallen). See README for details and caveats.
• Add [] indexed getter for strings
• Fix loop boxing/unboxing bugs
• Fix argument type of String.replaceAll()
• Fix error when trying to resolve a method on an enum
• Fix incorrect type inference of conditional and assignment expressions
• Make RegExpMatch bimodal

0.7.0

• (Breaking) Removed RuntimeTypes. All builtin types are referenced with CoreTypes/AsyncTypes etc now.
• (Breaking) Improve extension method syntax and make it the default for examples
• (Breaking) Added tree-shaking for dead code elimination. To ensure a file is compiled you must add it as an entrypoint to the Compiler. main.dart is always an entrypoint. See README for details.
• Support for compiling Pub packages in the CLI
• Support tryParse() and parse() for num and int
• Support Iterable.generate() and List.generate() (thanks @wrbl606)
• Support for ++i and --i prefix operators (thanks @wrbl606)
• Fix increment and decrement operations on list elements (thanks @wrbl606)
• Support for RegExpMatch and most RegExp methods (thanks @Noobware1)
• Support for function type arguments and inferring generic return types based on argument types
• Support for Comparable
• Support invoking functions stored as fields in a class
• Add identical and Object.hash functions
• Basic support for runtimeType
• Add Runtime.valueToString helper for converting a $Value to a string correctly
• Support for default positional parameters
• Use short-circuit evaluation for null coalescing operator ??
• Support for null-shorted method calls and property access using ?.
• Support null assertion operator !
• Fix type resolution with self-referential generic types such as class T implements Comparable<T>
• Support for rethrow
• Support for symbol literals
• Add bindings for Exception, RangeError, and FormatException
• Add bindings for Symbol and Zone
• Add bindings for ByteBuffer, TypedData, ByteData, and Uint8List from dart:typed_data
• Add binding for LinkedHashMap from dart:collection
• Improved performance by optimizing to static method calls and field accesses when the concrete type of a variable is known
• Fix super constructor parameter type resolution
• Fix various errors when using non-reserved language keywords as the name of a variable or function
• Fix incorrect type hint for String.contains()
• Fix top-level getters
• Fix named constructor calls using "new" or "const"
• Runtime errors now print out the scope stack for easier debugging
• Reformat line length to 80 for standardization with Dart ecosystem
• Documentation improvements

0.6.5

• Support for try/finally and try/catch/finally
• Fix numerous bugs related to exception handling

0.6.4

• Support for casting (as)
• Support for asserts and AssertionError
• Add magic constant and version to EVC bytecode to prevent errors.
• Fix for error when extending a bridge class

0.6.3

• Support for cascades
• Support for null coalescing assignment operator ??=
• Support for many List and Iterable methods (thanks @kodjodevf)
• Fix error with do-while loops
• Fix scope leak when using arrow functions
• Fix properties not being properly boxed/unboxed when passed to a function
• Fix constructor field initializer boxing
• Improve test coverage
• Add topics to pubspec

0.6.2+1

• Hotfix to increase size of globals array in runtime

0.6.2

• Initial support for enums
• Fix null coalescing expression
• Support for bitwise int xor operator
• Support for optional positional and unspecified named parameters in function expressions and tearoffs

0.6.1

• Support for multiple catch clauses and on
• $Map is now bimodal
• Fix for error when accessing values on a map returned from json.decode()
• Fix loops causing errors by attempting to repeatedly unbox variables declared outside the loop on each iteration
• Support for bitwise int operators |, &, <<, and >>
• Support for most DateTime functions, getters, and parse / tryParse constructors (thanks @oneplus1000)
• Support for ! and != operators (thanks @oneplus1000)
• Support for most Duration getters (thanks @oneplus1000)
• Support automatic await of Future return values in async functions
• Upgrade to analyzer v6
• Support Dart 3

0.6.0

• (Deprecated) BridgeTypeRef.spec, use the default constructor instead
• (Breaking) The $runtimeType getter on $Value has been replaced with a $getRuntimeType method that accepts a Runtime argument.
• (Breaking) Many bridge types now use CoreTypes/AsyncTypes etc instead of RuntimeTypes. This allows specifying generic type arguments.
• (Breaking) EvalPlugin now uses the supertype BridgeDeclarationRegistry instead of Compiler in configureForCompile().
• (Breaking) Removed the typeMapper parameter from $Future. It was mostly useless and didn't support async/await. Use bimodal wrappers instead.
• Support for relative imports and exports
• Support for Streams and StreamController
• Support for dart:io filesystem and HTTP classes
• Basic support for try/catch and throw. Only 1 untyped catch clause is supported for now, and finally is unsupported.
• Support for ternary expressions
• Support for is type-test expressions
• Basic support for RegExp
• Add a runtime permissions system to control access to dart:io. See the README for details.
• @RuntimeOverride annotations are now parsed at compile-time to create dynamic runtime overrides consumed by the runtime. See README for details.
• Support for Utf8Codec and JsonCodec
• Add BridgeSerializer, a class that can serialize bridge classes to JSON for use in the dart_eval CLI.
• Add an optional extensions syntax to make writing bridge classes easier (thanks @canewsin). See examples/dart_eval_extensions_syntax.dart.
• Add $Closure for an easier way to pass external functions as arguments
• Support modulo operator on numbers
• Add dart:math functions and constants
• Support for prefixed imports of top-level functions and constructors
• Very basic support for generic function types that simply resolves them to Function
• Improved code documentation (thanks @maxiee)
• Fix type inference using await
• Added type inference for class fields
• Fix method resolution on top-level variables
• Fixed an bug where compilation could fail due to a null function offset (thanks @maxiee)
• Fixed a type inference error where bridged functions could resolve incorrectly to a unboxed return type
• Fixed empty list literals causing the compiler to stall
• Fixed bugs when accessing list elements from class methods and/or closures
• Add a feature support table to the README

0.5.6

• (Breaking) Use DartTypes.list instead of RuntimeTypes.listType in bridge class definitions.
• Support for Iterable and for-each
• Support for collection for
• Fixes to branching logic
• Improved generic type inference
• Fix return value boxing in arrow functions
• Allow arrow function entrypoints in eval()
• Remove dcli to eliminate many extraneous dependencies
• Improved documentation

0.5.4

• Bindings for most String methods (thanks to @maks)
• Support for super constructor params
• Support for plugins in the eval() method
• Deprecated compilerSettings and runtimeSettings in eval() in favor of plugins
• Support for nullable type annotations in argument lists
• Removed the nullable param from KnownMethodArg in favor of the new nullable param in TypeRef
• Improved many error messages to display filename and a code snippet
• Error messages about type assignments now disambuigate between types if they have the same name

0.5.3

• Support for class getters and setters
• Automatic default constructor when none is specified
• Fix prefixed imports causing other types to be unresolvable

0.5.2

• Allow null to be boxed
• Fix Maps without explicit type parameters
• Other bug fixes

0.5.1

• Propagate expected types from variable declarations and argument lists to the expressions they contain.
• Allow specifying doubles with int literals when the expected type is known
• Fix static bridge method return types being null

0.5.0

Note: EVC bytecode generated with this version may not be compatible with previous versions.

• Web support for both compiler and runtime
• Incremental parsing for faster recompilation
• New plugin system for bridge libraries to enable reusing a Compiler instance
• Support for tear-offs (top-level functions and methods within the current class only)
• Improve async/await
• Reduce size of generated bytecode

0.4.7

• Add bindings for the dart:math Point class
• Add Duration.zero and some other Duration static getters
• Support unary minus on ints and doubles
• Support for optional positional parameters on bridge classes

0.4.6

• Support for bridged static getters
• Support for top-level and class arrow functions

0.4.5

• Support for arrow function expressions

0.4.4

• CLI: allow invoking without dart pub global run

0.4.3

• CLI: Improved ease of use and documentation
• CLI: Added support for JSON bindings
• Type arguments are now applied when extending a bridge class that declares a generic type parameter
• BridgeTypeRef.ref is now supported in limited cases for referencing generic class type parameters
• Support for bridged getters
• Support for string interpolation
• The eval() method now lets you specify an output file path and does not automatically output a file if left unspecified
• Fix broken sample in README (thanks @g123k)

0.4.2

• Fix analyzer version constraint

0.4.1

• Fix a potential crash when resolving common base types.
• Support for calling methods on a bridge class's supertype without having to declare the method on the subtype's declaration.
• Documentation improvements

0.4.0

• (Breaking) You must now specify the bridge or wrap parameter in a BridgeClassDef
• (Breaking) You must now specify isBridge: true when registering a bridge class constructor with runtime.registerBridgeFunc()
• Support for bridged (only) enums
• Support for variable captures inside closures
• Support for implicit class field accesses including this and super in closures
• Bridge declarations are now merged with a Dart source file of the same URI, if one exists
• Basic support for top-level variables and static fields
• Support for bool literals and logical and/or
• Support String.substring() (thanks to @maks)
• Now using continuous integration (thanks to @maks)
• Various bug fixes and code cleanups

0.3.0

• (Breaking) Modified public API for defining bridge classes. See Pub example.
• (Breaking) Relative import URIs may no longer work (it's unclear whether they worked before). Support will be re-added in a future release.
• (Deprecated) Runtime.executeNamed() is deprecated. Use Runtime.executeLib() instead.
• Compiler now uses graphs to compose libraries from imports, exports, and parts, and should now mostly follow the Dart spec.
• Partial support for show and hide on imports and exports
• Support defining extends, implements, and with on bridge classes
• Support for adding files to the compiler before compiling, for use in bridge libraries to enable exports.
• Add recursion guard for type resolution

0.2.0

• Partial support for anonymous functions and the Dart runtime type system
• New serializable interop descriptor classes to allow for code push in the future
• Runtime overrides
• Implement collection if for Lists
• Support for async/await via continuations, as well as Future.then()
• Basic CLI

0.1.0

• Rebuilt from the ground up around the new DBC bytecode compiler
• Public API changes: see readme
• Massive performance improvements, up to 350x
• Support for the Dart type system (compile-time checks only)
• Refactor class system to support super
• New simpler Bridge interop that also allows const classes

0.0.4

• Add support for if, basic for, number comparison operators, and postfix ++
• Fix +, -, *, and / operators
• Improve performance significantly

0.0.3

• Make the Pub analyzer happy
• Add some Dartdoc comments

0.0.2

• Fix scoping
• Add support for List and Map types

0.0.1

• Create parser and interpreter
• Add interop