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Dart const constructors can bypass factory validation, warns developer

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

A developer discovered that public const constructors in Dart allow users to bypass factory validation, as seen in the instructor_dart package. The factory methods validate inputs like regex patterns, but the raw constructors skip those checks. The fix is non-trivial because const constructors cannot contain validation logic.

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This is a subtle but important design gotcha for Dart library authors, though its impact is limited to packages that expose both factories and public constructors.
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