Feature request: make it easier to start using json_serializable

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@roughike commented on Feb 10, 2018, 11:00 AM UTC:

If json_serializable is the officially recommended JSON library for Dart / Flutter, it would make sense to make it easier to get started with it.

A live template for json_serializable models

To create a json_serializable model, some amount of boilerplate code is required from the user. A live template makes the process much more convenient.

It would look something like this:

Quick fixes for running code generation utility and adding needed dependencies

Here's the flow from the users point of view:

• create a json_serializable model class with the live template
• the User class has a squiggly red line under the name, saying "Code not generated yet"
• user presses Alt-Enter and sees a quick fix option called "Generate code for json_serializable model"

By hitting enter, the following steps would be done:

• Check if the json_serializable package is declared in pubspec file. If not, add it automatically and refresh the dependencies.
• Run flutter packages pub run build_runner build to build the generated code.

This issue was moved by Hixie from flutter/flutter/issues/14623.

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@roughike commented on Feb 10, 2018, 11:03 AM UTC:

If somebody can point me in the right direction (and if including these kind of features makes sense), I would like to take a stab at this.

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@zoechi commented on Feb 11, 2018, 2:19 PM UTC:

Seems related dart-lang/sdk#32103

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@Hixie commented on May 29, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC:

@devoncarew This is an IDE feature request.

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I think @zoechi is right here - we'd need to see a lot more uptake of json_serializable before we'd want to bake support for it into IDEs in a first class way. Generally extensibility - in the vein of dart-lang/sdk#32103 - seems like a good way to go.

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I think integrating build_runner would be a great first step and would help many other code-gen solutions.

Like also suggested in https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/16934#issuecomment-397567649