Quick fix experiment

[alanknight-wk]

Motivation

The codemod is heavy, and designed for large migrations a package at a time. We'd like to be able to re-use the logic, but do it in a faster and much smaller way. This is an experiment in invoking something quickly that can make an individual change.

My thought is to write a special-purpose migrator that takes a file name and a character position. So if we give it a character position anywhere within a string it migrates just that string and exits.

Right now, all this does is run just the constant migrator on a single file. If it's already been compiled, then it runs in sub-second time. But that's not doing a ddev format on the _intl.dart file. So we could accept that and leave it unformatted, or we could make the IDE extension run the format on save operation, which is generally faster, or something else. I'm thinking something like

dart pub global run over_react_codemod:intl_quick --character-position=12345 --file=lib/src/stuff/thing.dart

So this seems reasonably promising. The migrators can run without a resolved analysis, and do it pretty quickly.

We'd still need to validate we can call this from the IDE extensions easily and get the information we need. And things like revert would take some doing.

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[alanknight-wk]

Should probably run the importer too, so unwind the change to run only a single migrator. But we shouldn't (I think) need the change that runs them all sequentially. Or we could let the IDE Extension still do the import.

[aviary-wf]

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