Flutter-intellij: Crash (WidgetInspectorService?)

Created on 26 Nov 2017 · 2Comments · Source: flutter/flutter-intellij

What happened

I started using the widget inspector and received an error. Then, after opening the project up again, the error reappeared.

Version information

IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 • Flutter plugin io.flutter 19.1 • Dart plugin 173.3727.69

Flutter • channel alpha • [email protected]:flutter/flutter.git
Framework • revision e8aa40eddd (6 weeks ago) • 2017-10-17 15:42:40 -0700
Engine • revision 7c4142808c
Tools • Dart 1.25.0-dev.11.0

Exception

Error evaluating expression:
Unhandled exception:
NoSuchMethodError: No top-level getter 'WidgetInspectorService' declared.
Receiver: top-level
Tried calling: WidgetInspectorService
#0      NoSuchMethodError._throwNew (dart:core-patch/dart:core/errors_patch.dart:192)
#1      Eval (evaluate:source:1:11)

java.lang.Throwable: Error evaluating expression:
Unhandled exception:
NoSuchMethodError: No top-level getter 'WidgetInspectorService' declared.
Receiver: top-level
Tried calling: WidgetInspectorService
#0      NoSuchMethodError._throwNew (dart:core-patch/dart:core/errors_patch.dart:192)
#1      Eval (evaluate:source:1:11)

    at com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger.error(Logger.java:136)
    at io.flutter.inspector.EvalOnDartLibrary$1.received(EvalOnDartLibrary.java:98)
    at org.dartlang.vm.service.VmService.forwardResponse(VmService.java:456)
    at org.dartlang.vm.service.VmServiceBase.processResponse(VmServiceBase.java:450)
    at org.dartlang.vm.service.VmServiceBase$1.onMessage(VmServiceBase.java:96)
    at de.roderick.weberknecht.WebSocketReceiver.run(WebSocketReceiver.java:65)

Source

brianegan

Most helpful comment

I started using the widget inspector and received an error.

Yup, we need to land a companion PR into the Flutter framework to support some inspector introspection: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/12932

Your best bet for trying out the inspector is to wait for that PR to land. You_could_ try patching jacob314:inspector_service_review into your local flutter checkout, but that's going to be a lot more work than just waiting.

/cc @jacob314 @pq