implicit_reopen.md

Pattern: Implicit reopen

Issue: -

Description

Using an interface, base, final, or sealed modifier on a class, or a base modifier on a mixin, authors can control whether classes and mixins allow being implemented, extended, and/or mixed in from outside of the library where they're defined. In some cases, it's possible for an author to inadvertently relax these controls and implicitly "reopen" a class. (A similar reopening cannot occur with a mixin.)

This lint guards against unintentionally reopening a class by requiring such cases to be made explicit with the @reopen annotation in package:meta.

Example of incorrect code:

interface class I {}

class C extends I {} // LINT

Example of correct code:

interface class I {}

final class C extends I {}

interface class I {}

final class C extends I {}

import 'package:meta/meta.dart';

interface class I {}

@reopen
class C extends I {}

Further Reading

• Linter for Dart - implicit_reopen