Add @protected metadata (annotation)

[kevmoo]

This is in the spirit of issue #3.

Think of it as a sister to @­override.

1. Like other metadata/annotations: zero effect on runtime semantics. Purely for tooling.
2. Calls/References to such members outside of the class and subclasses yield warnings in tools

[sethladd]

It would be really cool if the Editor had a user-land "plugin" feature so developer can add behavior triggered by annotations.

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[danrubel]

Added this to the M3 milestone.

[danrubel]

We currently support "build.dart" as a mechanism for generating errors, warnings, and other files based upon annotations and other content in the Dart source files.... which addresses comment 1.

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[bwilkerson]

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[kevmoo]

What is the mechanism for reporting warnings/errors via build.dart?

[bwilkerson]

What is the mechanism for reporting warnings/errors via build.dart?

There isn't one. I'm not sure what Dan meant by his comment, but there isn't currently any way to add warnings and errors. Adding such a mechanism is certainly something on our radar, but unfortunately not something we're likely to get to before the end of Q1.

[bwilkerson]

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[DartBot]

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I would be happy with an editor only annotation provided it wouldn't require manual setup for the consumer of your library and it worked with dartdoc.

[kevmoo]

Clearly there is interest here: https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=3193

[kasperl]

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[kasperl]

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[bwilkerson]

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[DartBot]

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This looks like a good workaround, I really miss overridable 'private' methods.

[pq]

This is now in the meta package. See: #25841.