Autogenerate const constructors for Mocks

[danielgomezrico]

Hi

Is there any way to make the generated Mock classes to have a const constructor by default? That may help to make all of the tests to run faster

Current

class MockHttpClientService extends _i1.Mock implements _i44.HttpClientService {
  MockHttpClientService() {
    _i1.throwOnMissingStub(this);
  }

Expected

WIth a const constructor (just adding the const keyword on the constructor)

class MockHttpClientService extends _i1.Mock implements _i44.HttpClientService {
  const MockHttpClientService() {
    _i1.throwOnMissingStub(this);
  }

[yanok]

Nah, that won't work, since mock objects have internal state. Like _realCalls here https://github.com/dart-lang/mockito/blob/b4217750cbab5cdd2a773106abb476a7ea4aefb2/lib/src/mock.dart#L133, it is final, but it can't be const, since that will block us from adding anything to it.

[yanok]

(Not to mention your "Expected" code won't compile, since const constructor can't have bodies. But that's a solvable problem, the main issue is mocks are inherently not constant, so we shouldn't declare them as such).

[danielgomezrico]

Oh! got it, thanks for answering :)