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DART Essentials

You're reading from   DART Essentials Design and build full-featured web and CLI apps using the powerful Dart language and its libraries and tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783989607
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Dart FREE CHAPTER 2. Practical Dart 3. The Power of HTML5 with Dart 4. Developing a Mobile App with Dart 5. Web Components and polymer.dart 6. AngularDart 7. Server-side Applications with Dart 8. Testing and Profiling the Dart Code 9. Writing Native Extensions for the Standalone Dart VM Index

Writing a minimal native extension


We'll start by writing a very simple extension with just one function that takes Dart's String object as an argument and returns another String object with characters in a reverse order. Let's start by defining the two mandatory C functions, as we mentioned earlier.

The implementation here is based on the official example from https://github.com/dart-lang/bleeding_edge/blob/master/dart/samples/sample_extension/sample_extension.cc:

// Header files are part of Dart SDK.
#include "include/dart_native_api.h"
#include "include/dart_api.h"

Dart_NativeFunction ResolveName(Dart_Handle name,
                                int argc,
                                bool* auto_setup_scope) {

DART_EXPORT Dart_Handle fuzzy_search_Init(
        Dart_Handle parent_library) {
    if (Dart_IsError(parent_library)) {
        return parent_library;
    }
    // Register handler that is called every
    // time Dart's "native" keyword is used.
    Dart_Handle result_code ...
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