Have "go to definition" jump to a class when used on a ConstructorExpression where the default constructor is missing

[rrousselGit]

(not sure if the issue should be here or in the Dart Code repo)

Consider the following code:

class Example {
  Example._();
}

Then used as:

Example(); // Error, no ._();

Notice the error. It is here on purpose in this example.
The problem is, in this snippet, it is impossible to use "go to definition" on that Example(). Since there's no Example() constructor, the analyzer doesn't provide any definition.

In the case of a missing default constructor, could we jump to the class definition instead?

[dart-github-bot]

Summary: "Go to definition" fails on a ConstructorExpression when the default constructor is missing, leading to no definition being provided by the analyzer. It proposes jumping to the class definition instead.

[bwilkerson]

Yes, this is the right issue tracker. Navigation support is provided by the language server, not the plugin.

And I agree, it would be reasonable for navigation to work that way.

I don't know whether we already have the information we need in order to make it work that way or whether it would be extra work to get it, but that's an implementation detail.