Invocation abstract#

Representation of the invocation of a member on an object.

This is the type of objects passed to Object.noSuchMethod when an object doesn't support the member invocation that was attempted on it.

Constructors#

Invocation()#

Invocation();

Invocation.genericMethod() factory#

Creates an invocation corresponding to a generic method invocation.

If typeArguments is null or empty, the constructor is equivalent to calling Invocation.method with the remaining arguments. All the individual type arguments must be non-null.

If the named arguments are omitted, they default to no named arguments.

@pragma("wasm:entry-point")
factory Invocation.genericMethod(
  Symbol memberName,
  Iterable<Type>? typeArguments,
  Iterable<Object?>? positionalArguments, [
  Map<Symbol, Object?>? namedArguments,
]) => _Invocation.method(
  memberName,
  typeArguments,
  positionalArguments,
  namedArguments,
);

Invocation.getter() factory#

Creates an invocation corresponding to a getter invocation.

@pragma("wasm:entry-point")
factory Invocation.getter(Symbol name) = _Invocation.getter;

Invocation.method() factory#

Creates an invocation corresponding to a method invocation.

The method invocation has no type arguments. If the named arguments are omitted, they default to no named arguments.

@pragma("wasm:entry-point")
factory Invocation.method(
  Symbol memberName,
  Iterable<Object?>? positionalArguments, [
  Map<Symbol, Object?>? namedArguments,
]) =>
    _Invocation.method(memberName, null, positionalArguments, namedArguments);

Invocation.setter() factory#

Creates an invocation corresponding to a setter invocation.

This constructor accepts any Symbol as memberName, but remember that actual setter names end in =, so the invocation corresponding to object.member = value is

Invocation.setter(const Symbol("member="), value)

@pragma("wasm:entry-point")
factory Invocation.setter(Symbol memberName, Object? argument) =
    _Invocation.setter;

Properties#

hashCode no setter inherited#

The hash code for this object.

A hash code is a single integer which represents the state of the object that affects operator == comparisons.

All objects have hash codes. The default hash code implemented by Object represents only the identity of the object, the same way as the default operator == implementation only considers objects equal if they are identical (see identityHashCode).

If operator == is overridden to use the object state instead, the hash code must also be changed to represent that state, otherwise the object cannot be used in hash based data structures like the default Set and Map implementations.

Hash codes must be the same for objects that are equal to each other according to operator ==. The hash code of an object should only change if the object changes in a way that affects equality. There are no further requirements for the hash codes. They need not be consistent between executions of the same program and there are no distribution guarantees.

Objects that are not equal are allowed to have the same hash code. It is even technically allowed that all instances have the same hash code, but if clashes happen too often, it may reduce the efficiency of hash-based data structures like HashSet or HashMap.

If a subclass overrides hashCode, it should override the operator == operator as well to maintain consistency.

Inherited from Object.

external int get hashCode;

isAccessor no setter#

Whether the invocation was a getter or a setter call.

bool get isAccessor => isGetter || isSetter;

isGetter no setter#

Whether the invocation was a getter call. If so, all three types of arguments lists are empty.

bool get isGetter;

isMethod no setter#

Whether the invocation was a method call.

bool get isMethod;

isSetter no setter#

Whether the invocation was a setter call.

If so, positionalArguments has exactly one positional argument, namedArguments is empty, and typeArguments is empty.

bool get isSetter;

memberName no setter#

The name of the invoked member.

Symbol get memberName;

namedArguments no setter#

An unmodifiable view of the named arguments of the call.

If the member is a getter, setter or operator, the named arguments map is always empty.

Map<Symbol, dynamic> get namedArguments;

positionalArguments no setter#

An unmodifiable view of the positional arguments of the call.

If the member is a getter, the positional arguments list is always empty.

List<dynamic> get positionalArguments;

runtimeType no setter inherited#

A representation of the runtime type of the object.

Inherited from Object.

external Type get runtimeType;

typeArguments no setter#

An unmodifiable view of the type arguments of the call.

If the member is a getter, setter or operator, the type argument list is always empty.

List<Type> get typeArguments => const <Type>[];

Methods#

noSuchMethod() inherited#

Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.

A dynamic member invocation can attempt to call a member which doesn't exist on the receiving object. Example:

dynamic object = 1;
object.add(42); // Statically allowed, run-time error

This invalid code will invoke the noSuchMethod method of the integer 1 with an Invocation representing the .add(42) call and arguments (which then throws).

Classes can override noSuchMethod to provide custom behavior for such invalid dynamic invocations.

A class with a non-default noSuchMethod invocation can also omit implementations for members of its interface. Example:

class MockList<T> implements List<T> {
  noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) {
    log(invocation);
    super.noSuchMethod(invocation); // Will throw.
  }
}
void main() {
  MockList().add(42);
}

This code has no compile-time warnings or errors even though the MockList class has no concrete implementation of any of the List interface methods. Calls to List methods are forwarded to noSuchMethod, so this code will log an invocation similar to Invocation.method(#add, [42]) and then throw.

If a value is returned from noSuchMethod, it becomes the result of the original invocation. If the value is not of a type that can be returned by the original invocation, a type error occurs at the invocation.

The default behavior is to throw a NoSuchMethodError.

Inherited from Object.

@pragma("vm:entry-point")
@pragma("wasm:entry-point")
external dynamic noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation);

toString() inherited#

A string representation of this object.

Some classes have a default textual representation, often paired with a static parse function (like int.parse). These classes will provide the textual representation as their string representation.

Other classes have no meaningful textual representation that a program will care about. Such classes will typically override toString to provide useful information when inspecting the object, mainly for debugging or logging.

Inherited from Object.

external String toString();

Operators#

operator ==() inherited#

The equality operator.

The default behavior for all Objects is to return true if and only if this object and other are the same object.

Override this method to specify a different equality relation on a class. The overriding method must still be an equivalence relation. That is, it must be:

• Total: It must return a boolean for all arguments. It should never throw.

• Reflexive: For all objects o, o == o must be true.

• Symmetric: For all objects o1 and o2, o1 == o2 and o2 == o1 must either both be true, or both be false.

• Transitive: For all objects o1, o2, and o3, if o1 == o2 and o2 == o3 are true, then o1 == o3 must be true.

The method should also be consistent over time, so whether two objects are equal should only change if at least one of the objects was modified.

If a subclass overrides the equality operator, it should override the hashCode method as well to maintain consistency.

Inherited from Object.

external bool operator ==(Object other);