private event handlers, change watchers, databinding doesn't work

[kevmoo]

Uncaught Illegal argument(s): "_something" is a private identifier

It seems like a name is inferred from private members ending with 'Changed'

This is a regression since 0.7.6

[kevmoo]

Here's a commit demonstrating my work-around.

googlearchive/notational_velocity.dart@8312bdc

Renaming the private methods to end in 'Mutated' instead of 'Changed' eliminates the runtime error

[jmesserly]

Right, "Changed" is a Polymer feature for setting up an observer.
http://www.polymer-project.org/polymer.html#change-watchers

... we can't do the right thing here until Dart2js supports private symbols :(. Observable has same issue.

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Added Library-Polymer, Triaged labels.
Marked this as being blocked by #13355.

[sigmundch]

Added this to the M8 milestone.

[kevmoo]

It feels very weird that the names of private methods in my classes would cause runtime errors.

Is there a check somewhere looking for methods that end in 'Changed'? Could this check add the condition that the method not start with "_" -- and is therefor private?

[sigmundch]

Removed this from the M8 milestone.
Added this to the Later milestone.
Removed Priority-Unassigned label.
Added Priority-Medium label.

[jmesserly]

Issue #14191 has been merged into this issue.

[jmesserly]

Issue #13559 has been merged into this issue.

[jmesserly]

would be nice to fix in M8 but blocked on dart2js not-implemented-feature.

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Marked this as being blocked by #14231.
Changed the title to: "private event handlers, change watchers, databinding don't work".

[ussuri]

Re merging Issue #14191 into this.

14191 indeed seems to have the same root cause (lack of support for private members), but the practical consequences are different: this one at least produces a runtime error, allowing the user to track it down, while with 14191 the unsupported usage is silently ignored. So while this can wait for the root cause to be fixed, it would be very desirable to at least add some diagnostic to the 14191 use case in the meantime.

Also, 14191 is not about dart2js at all: it doesn't work in Dartium either.

[ussuri]

Ok, with the changed title this looks better :)

[jmesserly]

Also, 14191 is not about dart2js at all: it doesn't work in Dartium either.

Right, it doesn't work on either impl because we're waiting on a new API MirrorSystem.getSymbol. They just implemented it in Dart VM but not in dart2js yet. I can't use the new API until it works in both places. Hope that clarifies.

[kevmoo]

Changed the title to: "private event handlers, change watchers, databinding doesn't work".

[sigmundch]

Removed this from the Later milestone.
Added this to the M9 milestone.

[clayberg]

Removed this from the M9 milestone.
Added this to the 1.1 milestone.

[sigmundch]

Removed this from the 1.1 milestone.
Added this to the 1.2 milestone.