message method Null safety

Use this for a message that will be translated for different locales. The expected usage is that this is inside an enclosing function that only returns the value of this call and provides a scope for the variables that will be substituted in the message.

The messageText is the string to be translated, which may be interpolated based on one or more variables.

The args is a list containing the arguments of the enclosing function. If there are no arguments, args can be omitted.

The name is required only for messages that have args, and optional for messages without args. It is used at runtime to look up the message and pass the appropriate arguments to it. If provided, name must be globally unique in the program. It must match the enclosing function name, or if the function is a method of a class, name can also be of the form _, to make it easier to distinguish messages with the same name but in different classes.

The desc provides a description of the message usage.

The examples is a const Map of examples for each interpolated variable. For example

String hello(String yourName) => Intl.message(
      'Hello, $yourName',
      name: 'hello',
      args: [yourName],
      desc: 'Say hello',
      examples: const {'yourName': 'Sparky'},
    );

The source code will be processed via the analyzer to extract out the message data, so only a subset of valid Dart code is accepted. In particular, everything must be literal and cannot refer to variables outside the scope of the enclosing function. The examples map must be a valid const literal map. Similarly, the desc argument must be a single, simple string and skip a boolean literal. These three arguments will not be used at runtime but will be extracted from the source code and used as additional data for translators. For more information see the "Messages" section of the main package documentation (https://pub.dev/packages/intl).

The skip arg will still validate the message, but will be filtered from the extracted message output. This can be useful to set up placeholder messages during development whose text aren't finalized yet without having the placeholder automatically translated.