StreamingMarkdown class

Reveals text progressively, rebuilding only the part that can still change.

The source is split at the last safe blank line. Everything before it is settled — built once, cached, and wrapped in a RepaintBoundary, so it is neither rebuilt nor repainted as the reply continues. Only the tail is rebuilt per frame.

That split is the whole performance story. Measured on a 7.7 kB reply, a whole-document rebuild costs about 14 ms; a tail-only rebuild costs about 1.3 ms and, unlike the first, does not grow as the reply gets longer.

Streaming is data, not a Stream: rebuild this widget with a longer text while isStreaming is true. When it flips to false the remainder fast-forwards in, so a finished reply never trickles.

Inheritance

Constructors

StreamingMarkdown({Key? key, required String text, required StreamingMarkdownBuilder builder, bool isStreaming = true, double charactersPerSecond = 300})
Creates a revealing Markdown view.
const

Properties

builder StreamingMarkdownBuilder
Renders a slice of the source. The same builder is used for the settled prefix and the live tail.
final
charactersPerSecond double
Baseline reveal speed. The reveal goes faster than this on its own whenever it would otherwise fall behind the incoming text.
final
hashCode int
The hash code for this object.
no setterinherited
isStreaming bool
Whether more text may still arrive.
final
key Key?
Controls how one widget replaces another widget in the tree.
finalinherited
runtimeType Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
no setterinherited
text String
Everything received so far.
final

Methods

createElement() StatefulElement
Creates a StatefulElement to manage this widget's location in the tree.
inherited
createState() State<StreamingMarkdown>
Creates the mutable state for this widget at a given location in the tree.
override
debugDescribeChildren() List<DiagnosticsNode>
Returns a list of DiagnosticsNode objects describing this node's children.
inherited
debugFillProperties(DiagnosticPropertiesBuilder properties) → void
Add additional properties associated with the node.
inherited
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.
inherited
toDiagnosticsNode({String? name, DiagnosticsTreeStyle? style}) DiagnosticsNode
Returns a debug representation of the object that is used by debugging tools and by DiagnosticsNode.toStringDeep.
inherited
toString({DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.info}) String
A string representation of this object.
inherited
toStringDeep({String prefixLineOne = '', String? prefixOtherLines, DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug, int wrapWidth = 65}) String
Returns a string representation of this node and its descendants.
inherited
toStringShallow({String joiner = ', ', DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug}) String
Returns a one-line detailed description of the object.
inherited
toStringShort() String
A short, textual description of this widget.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) bool
The equality operator.
inherited