A lot of breaking changes

[valle-xyz]

Hey @felangel, 👋🏻

I really like this library and I am really impressed by your coding skills and by the effort you put into this. This is without doubt one of the most important libraries in the flutter space.

I realized, that I spend most of the time I have to put into the maintenance of my app with the breaking changes of the bloc library and its siblings (last one mocktail). So this library not only helps me most but also needs the most time.

There is no request or proposal, but I just wanted to raise this and hear your thoughts on it.

Thanks again for your great work! 🙏🏻

[felangel]

Hi @Valentin-Seehausen 👋
Thanks for opening an issue!

It would be really helpful if you could provide more information regarding which breaking changes you spent the most time on.

Unfortunately, switching to mocktail was done out of necessity due to null safety support (see dart-lang/mockito#286 and dart-lang/mockito#347). Without mocktail it would not have been possible to support the existing blocTest api when it came to mocking and there would have likely been much larger breaking changes involving code generation.

I have tried my best to provide migration guides to walk through all breaking changes and explain why they were made and how to upgrade. I hope that helps and I apologize for any inconvenience!

[valle-xyz]

Hey @felangel,

thank you very much for your kind answer.

I don't think there are breaking changes that need more work than others but in sum, it's just a lot. Nothing more. The migration guides are very good. 🙏🏻

The update to null-safety was obviously a huge step all libraries needed to go. Still, I am stuck with some failing tests and weird errors due to mocktail where I have to spend time to maintenance and can't develop new features.

[felangel]

@Valentin-Seehausen I'm sorry to hear that and I understand how you feel -- migrating large applications to null safety is fairly challenging. If you haven't already, I highly recommend joining the bloc discord and you can post any questions/challenges you have when migrating (failing tests, weird errors, etc.) and I'm sure the community will be able to help 👍

Closing for now since there don't appear to be any actionable items, thanks! 🙏