json_serializable 0.5.0

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• BREAKING Removed deprecated support for require_library_directive / requireLibraryDirective in build_runner configuration.

• BREAKING Removed the deprecated generators.dart library.

• BREAKING Removed jsonPartBuilder function from public API.

• Support the latest package:source_gen.

• Private and ignored fields are now excluded when generating serialization and deserialization code by using @JsonKey(ignore: true).

• Throw an exception if a private field or an ignored field is referenced by a required constructor argument.

• More comprehensive escaping of string literals.

package:json_serializable/type_helper.dart #

• Breaking The nullable parameter on TypeHelper.serialize and .deserialize has been removed. It is now exposed in SerializeContext and DeserializeContext abstract classes as a read-only property.

• Potentially Breaking The metadata property on SerializeContext and DeserializeContext is now readonly. This would potentially break code that extends these classes – which is not expected.

• Potentially Breaking Inherited fields are now processed and used when generating serialization and deserialization code. There is a possibility that the generated code may change in undesired ways for classes annotated for v0.3.

• Avoid unnecessary braces in string escapes.

• Use single quotes when generating code.

• The require_library_directive option now defaults to false. The option will be removed entirely in 0.4.0.

• Support the latest version of the analyzer package.

• Expanded package:build support to allow version 0.12.0.

• Add a build.yaml so the builder can be consumed by users of build_runner version 0.7.0.

• Now requires a Dart 2.0.0-dev release.

• NEW top-level library json_serializable.dart.

  • Replaces now deprecated generators.dart to access JsonSerializableGenerator and JsonLiteralGenerator.

  • Adds the jsonPartBuilder function to make it easy to create a PartBuilder, without creating an explicit dependency on source_gen.

• BREAKING UnsupportedTypeError added a new required constructor argument: reason.

• BREAKING The deprecated annotations.dart library has been removed. Use package:json_annotation instead.

• BREAKING The arguments to TypeHelper serialize and deserialize have changed.

  • SerializeContext and DeserializeContext (new classes) are now passed instead of the TypeHelperGenerator typedef (which has been deleted).

• JsonSerializableGenerator now supports an optional useWrappers argument when generates and uses wrapper classes to (hopefully) improve the speed and memory usage of serialization – at the cost of more code.

  NOTE: useWrappers is not guaranteed to improve the performance of serialization. Benchmarking is recommended.

• Make null field handling smarter. If a field is classified as not nullable, then use this knowledge when generating serialization code – even if includeIfNull is false.

• Throw an exception if a duplicate JSON key is detected.

• Support the nullable field on the JsonSerializable class annotation.

• Throw a more helpful error when a constructor is missing.

• Moved the annotations in annotations.dart to package:json_annotations.

  • Allows package authors to release code that has the corresponding annotations without requiring package users to inherit all of the transitive dependencies.

• Deprecated annotations.dart.

• Write out toJson methods more efficiently when the first fields written are not intercepted by the null-checking method.

• Simplify the serialization of Map instances when no conversion is required for values.

• Handle int literals in JSON being assigned to double fields.

• Enable support for enum values.
• Added asConst to JsonLiteral.
• Improved the handling of Dart-specific characters in JSON strings.

• Upgrade to package:source_gen v0.7.0

• When serializing classes that implement their own fromJson constructor, honor their constructor parameter type.

• BREAKING Types are now segmented into their own libraries.

  • package:json_serializable/generators.dart contains Generator implementations.

  • package:json_serializable/annotations.dart contains annotations. This library should be imported with your target classes.

  • package:json_serializable/type_helpers.dart contains TypeHelper classes and related helpers which allow custom generation for specific types.

• BREAKING Generation fails for types that are not a JSON primitive or that do not explicitly supports JSON serialization.

• BREAKING TypeHelper:

  • Removed can methods. Return null from (de)serialize if the provided type is not supported.

  • Added (de)serializeNested arguments to (de)serialize methods allowing generic types. This is how support for Iterable, List, and Map is implemented.

• BREAKING JsonKey.jsonName was renamed to name and is now a named parameter.

• Added support for optional, non-nullable fields.

• Added support for excluding null values when generating JSON.

• Eliminated all implicit casts in generated code. These would end up being runtime checks in most cases.

• Provide a helpful error when generation fails due to undefined types.

• Fix homepage in pubspec.yaml.

• Split off from source_gen.

• Add /* unsafe */ comments to generated output likely to be unsafe.

• Support (de)serializing values in Map.

• Fix ordering of fields when they are initialized via constructor.

• Don't use static members when calculating fields to (de)serialize.