From d55870eb24af5b8a625d095e5e237458af0e8fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Mortimer <110429180+travis-mortimer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 10:47:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update README.md

This seems to be a common question that is quite difficult to answer. The most visible solution I found previously was to use the `remove_from_coverage` package to remove generated files from the coverage report. That solution complicates CLI commands and requires updating CI/CD pipelines.
---
 json_serializable/README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/json_serializable/README.md b/json_serializable/README.md
index 713ff4c1e..d53e3138e 100644
--- a/json_serializable/README.md
+++ b/json_serializable/README.md
@@ -287,6 +287,18 @@ targets:
           include_if_null: true
 ```
 
+To exclude generated files from coverage, you can further configure `build.yaml`.
+
+```yaml
+targets:
+  $default:
+    builders:
+      source_gen:combining_builder:
+        options:
+          preamble: |
+            // coverage:ignore-file
+```
+
 [example]: https://github.com/google/json_serializable.dart/tree/master/example
 [dart build system]: https://github.com/dart-lang/build
 [package:json_annotation]: https://pub.dev/packages/json_annotation

From 732244ecd75075725b7381c788c96a16fc40cfeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: travis-mortimer <travis.mortimer@ayahealthcare.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2025 17:40:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] updated json_serializable readme template with build.yaml
 example to exclude generated files from coverage

---
 json_serializable/tool/readme/readme_template.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/json_serializable/tool/readme/readme_template.md b/json_serializable/tool/readme/readme_template.md
index adba60f1c..d99c3ec78 100644
--- a/json_serializable/tool/readme/readme_template.md
+++ b/json_serializable/tool/readme/readme_template.md
@@ -152,6 +152,18 @@ targets:
           include_if_null: true
 ```
 
+To exclude generated files from coverage, you can further configure `build.yaml`.
+
+```yaml
+targets:
+  $default:
+    builders:
+      source_gen:combining_builder:
+        options:
+          preamble: |
+            // coverage:ignore-file
+```
+
 [example]: https://github.com/google/json_serializable.dart/tree/master/example
 [dart build system]: https://github.com/dart-lang/build
 [package:json_annotation]: https://pub.dev/packages/json_annotation