Any way I could change the location of .dart and .dartServer folders?

[UtkarshVerma]

My home directory is getting cluttered up so I wanted to move the .dart and .dartServer folders elsewhere. Is there any way I could achieve this?

[TamasBarta]

I had the same issue, because my home directory is read-only, so ~/.dartServer could not be created there, so the Dart language server was crashing.

I could control the ~/.dartServer location with the ANALYZER_STATE_LOCATION_OVERRIDE environment variable.

I put this in my .zshrc to move it to ~/.local/share/dartServer:

export ANALYZER_STATE_LOCATION_OVERRIDE="$XDG_DATA_HOME/dartServer"

However, I'm not sure about ~/.dart, or what issues I could have because of that directory never getting created.

Source:

sdk/pkg/analyzer/lib/file_system/physical_file_system.dart

Lines 18 to 22 in 28738df

	/// Returns the path to default state location.
	///
	/// Generally this is ~/.dartServer. It can be overridden via the
	/// ANALYZER_STATE_LOCATION_OVERRIDE environment variable, in which case this
	/// method will return the contents of that environment variable.

Edit: It looks like ~/.dart is not changeable, it looks hardcoded here:

sdk/pkg/dartdev/lib/src/analytics.dart

Lines 97 to 110 in ecc6ed1

	/// The directory used to store the analytics settings file.
	///
	/// Typically, the directory is `~/.dart/` (and the settings file is
	/// `dartdev.json`).
	///
	/// This can return null under some conditions, including when the user's home
	/// directory does not exist.
	Directory getDartStorageDirectory() {
	var homeDir = Directory(userHomeDir());
	if (!homeDir.existsSync()) {
	return null;
	}
	return Directory(path.join(homeDir.path, _dartDirectoryName));
	}