dart:html interfaces which should be Lists

[DartBot]

This issue was originally filed by @seaneagan

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The following dart:html interfaces could either be replaced by or at least extend List:

AnimationList
ClientRectList
CSSRuleList
CSSValueList
DataTransferItemList
DOMMimeTypeArray
DOMSettableTokenList
DOMTokenList
FileList
FilteredElementList
HTMLCollection
HTMLAllCollection
HTMLOptionsCollection
MediaStreamList
MediaStreamTrack
MediaStreamTrackList
SpeechGrammarList
SpeechInputResultList
SpeechRecognitionResultList
SQLResultSetRowList
StyleSheetList
SVGAnimatedLengthList
SVGAnimatedNumberList
SVGAnimatedTransformList
SVGElementInstanceList
SVGLengthList
SVGNumberList
SVGPathSegList
SVGPointList
SVGStringList
TextTrackCueList
TextTrackList
TimeRanges
TouchList

Many of them are immutable, in which cases extending an immutable version of List (issue #236) would be optimal.

[madsager]

Added Area-DOM, Triaged labels.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by @seaneagan

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A couple more:

DomPluginArray
EntryArray
EntryArraySync

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by @seaneagan

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a few more:

SpeechRecognitionResult
DomPlugin

[peter-ahe-google]

Issue #2972 has been merged into this issue.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by imjason...@gmail.com

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Some of these seem like they may be easy to fix (e.g., FileList -> List<File>)

If someone's willing to shepherd me through the process, I'd be happy to try sending patches for some of these.

[sethladd]

cc @jacob314.
Removed Type-Defect label.
Added Type-Enhancement label.

[sethladd]

Hi Jason,

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Thanks!

[sethladd]

cc @vsmenon.
cc @rakudrama.

[jmesserly]

I was just bitten by this too (in my case, CSSRuleList).

[vsmenon]

Added this to the M1 milestone.

[iposva-google]

Removed Area-DOM label.
Added Area-HTML label.

[efortuna]

Set owner to @efortuna.
Added Started label.

[efortuna]

Fixed in revision 12939.

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Added Fixed label.

[efortuna]

A little more information on this bug. All of the interfaces that behave exactly like lists were converted to List<Foo> and the FooList type was removed. For types that behave like lists but have other methods, we keep the FooList type, but they implement List.

[efortuna]

Marked this as blocking #5499.

[sethladd]

Thanks!

[peter-ahe-google]

Awesome!

[efortuna]

Issue #2174 has been merged into this issue.

[DartBot]

This comment was originally written by @seaneagan

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Since dart:html is being looked at heavily now, just wanted to mention that there are still quite a few which either:

* don't implement List

• don't have extra methods beyond List
• have extra methods, but maybe it makes more sense to place them elsewhere

dart:html

DataTransferItemList
MediaList
DomSettableTokenList
DomTokenList
DomStringList
FileList
NodeList
SourceBufferList
SpeechGrammarList
TextTrackCueList
TextTrackList
DomMimeTypeArray
DomPluginArray
SpeechRecognitionResult
HtmlCollection, HtmlOptionsCollection, HtmlAllCollection, HtmlFormControlsCollection
  - has "namedItem" getter which could be moved to a static method which takes a List<Node> and a name
RadioNodeList, HtmlFormControlsCollection.itemName
  - could be replaced by a RadioGroup concept (probably outside dart:html)
TimeRanges
  - could just be a List<Interval<num>> see issue #3661

dart:svg

LengthList
NumberList
PathSegList
PointList
StringList
TransformList
  - has "consolidate" and "createSvgTransformFromMatrix" which could be constructors on dart:svg.Transform instead