MAD Lint 2.0

A comprehensive Dart/Flutter lint plugin that enforces best practices and catches common issues in your codebase.

Features

Code Quality Rules

• New Line Before Return: Ensures a blank line before return statements for better readability.
• No Magic Numbers: Catches usage of magic numbers in code.
• No Bang Operator: Prevents the use of the null assertion operator (!).
• Use Wildcard for Unused Parameters: Enforces using underscore (_) for unused parameters in function declarations.

State Management Rules

• Full Copy-With for State: Ensures all state classes have a complete copyWith method implementation.

  • Detects missing copyWith methods in state classes.
  • Verifies all properties are included in copyWith methods.

• Mapped Fields Validation: Validates mappedFields getters in state classes.

  • Ensures mappedFields getter exists where required.
  • Validates that mappedFields returns a Map.
  • Ensures all fields are included in the mapping.
  • Validates key-value pairs in the mapping.

Object Comparison & Equality

• Required Full Props: Ensures all properties are included in the props getter when using Equatable. This helps prevent bugs where properties might be accidentally omitted from the equality comparison.
  • Example:

    // Good:
    class User extends Equatable {
      final String name;
      final int age;
      
      @override
      List<Object?> get props => [name, age]; // All fields included
    }
    
    // Will trigger the rule:
    class User extends Equatable {
      final String name;
      final int age;
      
      @override
      List<Object?> get props => [name]; // 'age' is missing
    }

Resource Management

• Stream Subscription Disposal: Ensures proper disposal of StreamSubscription objects.
• Ensure Dispose Called: Verifies that dispose methods are called on objects that require cleanup.

Installation

Add the following to your analysis_options.yaml:

plugins:
  mad_lint:
    version: ^2.0.0

Configuration

You can enable/disable specific rules:

plugins:
  mad_lint:
    version: ^2.0.0
    diagnostics:
      stream_subscription_must_be_disposed: true
      newline_before_return: true
      required_full_props: true
      ensure_dispose_called: true
      no_magic_number: true
      no_bang_operator: true
      missing_copy_with_for_states: true
      incomplete_copy_with_for_states: true
      missing_mapped_fields_getter: true
      mapped_fields_must_be_expression: true
      mapped_fields_must_return_map: true
      mapped_fields_not_all_fields: true
      mapped_fields_key_value_mismatch: true
      use_wildcard_for_unused_parameters: true

Migration from custom_lint to analysis_server_plugin

This guide describes how to migrate from custom_lint (and mad_lint) to the official Dart analyzer plugin system based on analysis_server_plugin.

The goal is to:

• Completely remove dev_dep_common
• Remove all mentions of mad_lint
• Stop using custom_lint
• Configure analyzer plugins according to the official documentation

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1. Remove dev_dep_common and mad_lint

1.1 Delete the package

• Delete the package directory (e.g. packages/dev_dep_common/)
• Remove it from any workspace/monorepo tooling configuration (melos, scripts, etc.)

1.2 Remove all references

Search the entire repository and remove all references to:

• dev_dep_common
• mad_lint

Places to check:

• pubspec.yaml (dependencies, dev_dependencies, dependency_overrides)
• analysis_options.yaml
• CI scripts
• README and internal documentation

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2. Remove custom_lint

In all packages where it was used:

2.1 Remove dependencies

Delete the following from pubspec.yaml:

• custom_lint
• custom_lint_builder
• Any *_lint packages that were implemented specifically for custom_lint

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3. Configure analyzer plugins via analysis_options.yaml

Analyzer plugins are now configured directly in analysis_options.yaml.

If the plugin is published on pub.dev:

# analysis_options.yaml
plugins:
  mad_lint: ^2.0.0