Access to pubspec.yaml attributes (version) from Dart app

Question

Is there any way to access some of the attributes listed in a pubspec.yaml file in that files Dart application?

In particular, the version and description attributes may be quite useful to see in a version info dialog, or even a '--version' when using a console app. I haven't been able to find a way to access in the API. I'm not sure if Mirrors would have anything appropriate, but if a web app is compiled to JS, then I don't see the description anywhere in the output JS.

Thanks.

EDIT
feature request: https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=18769

Answer 1

FOR FLUTTER ONLY

Please use this new package package_info_plus from flutter community.

import 'package:package_info_plus/package_info_plus.dart';  PackageInfo packageInfo = await PackageInfo.fromPlatform();  String appName = packageInfo.appName; String packageName = packageInfo.packageName; String version = packageInfo.version; String buildNumber = packageInfo.buildNumber; 

BELOW SOLUTION IS DEPRICATED.

I know the OP wants to read YAML but for flutter dev's you guys can read the version and other info of the application using package_info.

This is the sample to fetch details from Android/iOS application.

import 'package:package_info/package_info.dart';  PackageInfo packageInfo = await PackageInfo.fromPlatform();  String appName = packageInfo.appName; String packageName = packageInfo.packageName; String version = packageInfo.version; String buildNumber = packageInfo.buildNumber;