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#178472

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  • flutter/178472 Widget preview command can crash on exit if in the middle of analyzing changes to a Dart file.

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Unnecessary noise in our crash reporting. Shouldn't have a noticeable impact on development experience.

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  1. Run flutter widget-preview start in a Flutter project
  2. Edit a source file and immediately send SIGQUIT to the flutter process
  3. Repeat this process multiple times to verify no error is reported

…osal (flutter#178550)

It's possible that the preview detector is in the middle of processing
sources after a source file was changed while the widget previewer is
shutting down if we're not holding the mutex. This can result in the
analysis context being disposed of when we don't expect it, causing
requests to the analyzer to return errors.

This change guards against this scenario by ensuring that all calls to
`findPreviewFunctions` are guarded by the mutex. This change also
removes assumptions related to the return type from analyzer APIs to
account for the possibility that an error response was returned.

Fixes flutter#178472
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This pull request introduces several improvements to gracefully handle scenarios where the analysis context might be disposed, particularly during shutdown or unexpected events. The changes primarily focus on preventing runtime errors by adding checks for valid analysis results and ensuring critical sections are guarded by a mutex. Additionally, the PreviewDetectorMutex is now exposed for testing purposes, and new tests have been added to validate the robustness of the PreviewDetector when the analysis context is disposed. The changes enhance the stability and testability of the widget preview feature.

@reidbaker reidbaker added the autosubmit Merge PR when tree becomes green via auto submit App label Nov 17, 2025
@auto-submit auto-submit bot merged commit 5c04145 into flutter:flutter-3.38-candidate.0 Nov 17, 2025
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