flutter_db_inspector_hive

Hive CE adapter for Flutter DB Inspector. Browse, search, filter, sort and edit open Boxes and LazyBoxes while your app runs.

Install

dependencies:
  flutter_db_inspector: ^2.0.0
  flutter_db_inspector_hive: ^2.0.0

Register

final settings = await Hive.openBox('settings');
final cache = await Hive.openLazyBox('cache');

DbInspector.initialize(enabled: kDebugMode);
DbInspector.registerDatabase(
  name: 'hive',
  adapter: HiveAdapter([settings, cache]),
);

// Or resolve boxes on every request, so boxes opened later show up:
DbInspector.registerDatabase(
  name: 'hive',
  adapter: HiveAdapter.dynamic(() => myOpenBoxes),
);

Each open box is an entity with key, value and type columns. Custom objects stored through a TypeAdapter are shown through their toJson().

Editing custom objects

Writing plain JSON over a custom object would silently change the stored type, so it is refused (UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION) unless you provide a decode callback:

HiveAdapter(
  [peopleBox],
  decode: (json, previous) => previous is Person || previous == null
      ? Person.fromJson(json! as Map)
      : json,
);

Use KeyValueAdapter(type: 'hive', stores: () => [HiveBoxStore(box, decode: ...)]) for per-box callbacks.

Classic hive (2.x)

This package depends on hive_ce, the maintained successor of hive. If you still use classic hive 2.2.3, implement the binding yourself:

final class ClassicHiveStore extends KeyValueStore {
  ClassicHiveStore(this.box);
  final Box<Object?> box; // from package:hive

  @override String get name => box.name;
  @override int get length => box.length;
  @override Iterable<Object> get keys => box.keys.cast<Object>();
  @override bool containsKey(Object key) => box.containsKey(key);
  @override Object? get(Object key) => box.get(key);
  @override Future<void> put(Object key, Object? value) => box.put(key, value);
  @override Future<void> delete(Object key) => box.delete(key);
  @override Future<int> clear() => box.clear();
}

KeyValueAdapter(type: 'hive', stores: () => [ClassicHiveStore(box)]);

Limitations

• Only open boxes are listed; closed boxes are skipped.
• Filtering, sorting and search run in memory. For lazy boxes this reads every value from disk, so plain paging is preferred on large lazy boxes.
• Typed boxes (e.g. Box<int>) reject values of another type (INVALID_REQUEST).
• Custom objects without toJson() are shown as their toString().