Support arbitrary files

[shilangyu]

Sometimes I have assets that are not on the list of supported extensions but I would still like to have strings generated for them. At the moment flutter_gen just ignores these files and generates no strings for them.

Example:

For the following snippet from pubspec.yaml:

flutter:
  assets:
    - CHANGELOG.md

I would expect to have a string generated for CHANGLELOG.md to avoid using hardcoded strings in my code to reference this asset.

[wasabeef]

@shilangyu

Thank you for using the FlutterGen. Recently, We fixed the bug by 1.3.0 and 1.3.1.

So please upgrade to 1.3.1+.

$ brew upgrade fluttergen/tap/fluttergen

or

$ dart pub global activate flutter_gen

And just now I add some arbitrary files to sample settings.

https://github.com/FlutterGen/flutter_gen/commit/3cd380eda1c72a3406f62c91237e61293fb92fac

[shilangyu]

But this means I need to have my files in a specific folder? For example my changelog.md file is in the root of the project, and the string is not generated for it (as in the example from my initial comment)

[Tienisto]

The quick workaround using rootBundle:

import 'package:flutter/services.dart' show rootBundle;

FutureBuilder(
  future: rootBundle.loadString('CHANGELOG.md'),
  builder: (context, data) {
    if (!data.hasData) {
      return Container();
    }
    return Markdown(
      data: data.data!,
    );
  }
)