Workiva / Workiva/dependency_validator
Consider implementing this as an analyzer plugin
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- Dominant language
- Dart
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Description
Currently, we detect dependency usages with regex matching. This is fast, but can produce false positives (#21). It's also separate tool that needs to be run manually and added to CI.
To address these, we should consider implementing the current logic as a plugin to the Dart analysis server. Users would get results as a part of their existing static analysis (including via IDEs for more immediate and continuous feedback).
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the current regex-based dependency detection and how the tool is run manually or in CI. Then investigate the Dart analysis server plugin model and determine how the existing logic could provide static-analysis results, including IDE feedback. Done means the dependency checks are available through the analyzer rather than only as a separate command.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- dart
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100