async_bloc 0.1.1

A bloc that accepts async source as input

async_bloc

A library built upon Bloc_Flutter and Provider to make it easy to support async operation

This library includes 4 sub-modules:

Multi-State Result

The library includes 4 different types of MultiStateResult, each has different state to indicates its internal state. The type is immutable data type, and can be pattern matched like enum.

• ActionResult: A result has 2 states: Completed and Failed. It can be used to represents the result of an action without return value.
• AsyncActionResult: A result has 4 states: Pending, Busy, Completed, and Failed. It represents the full lifecycle of an async action without a return value.
• QueryResult<T>: A result has 2 states: Succeeded and Failed, in which Succeeded would holds a value of given type T. It represents the result of a query that returns a certain type of data.
• AsyncQueryResult<T>: A result has 4, states: Pending, Busy, Suceeded, and Failed. It represents a full lifecycle of a query that returns a certain type of data. Potentially, an extra state Default can be used, it is like Pending indicates the query hasn't been started yet, but also holds a value like Succeeded. It can be used to indicates the scenario which app provides default value as optimistic updates.

How it works

Typically, the result can be used to represent the result of an async operation, such as calling API or loading data from DB, or time consuming data processing.

Typically, the result itself should be AsyncActionResult or AsyncQueryResult, depends on whether app cares about the return value or not, and UI would renders accordingly, such as loading screen error screen or the successful screen.

The query/action itself, would be represented as Future<QueryResult>/Future<ActionResult>, which can be used to update AsyncQueryResult and AsyncActionResult accordingly.

Typically, AsyncActionResult would be holds by a Bloc or ValueNotifier, which will be discussed below.

Convert Sync Result to Async Result

asAsyncResult can convert sync result into its async counterpart accordingly.

AsyncActionResult asyncActionResult = actionResult.asAsyncResult();

AsyncQueryResult asyncQueryResult = queryResult.asAsyncResult();

Convert Future Types

Future.asActionResult can materialise any future into Future<ActionResult> . The new future would always fulfills, when original future failed, it captures the error into a FailedResult accordingly.

Future<ActionResult>.asActionResult would flatten the hierarchy and respect the failed value from original future.

Future<T>.asQueryResult would matertialse the future of T into Future<QueryResult<T>>. The new future would always fulfills, when original future failed, it captures the error into a FailedResult accordingly.

Multi-State Result Builder

MultiStateResult types provide map and/or mapOr method to pattern match and map the value, which can be used to build UI manually.

ActionResultBuilder and QueryResultBuilder

In practise, ActionResultBuilder and QueryResultBuilder provided by this library can be more convenient, with a few extra features.

ActionResultBuilder and QueryResultBuilder accepts different builder function to build the UI according to the state of the AsyncActionResult or the AsyncQueryResult.

An simple example:

Widget build(BuildContext context, AsyncActionResult result) =>
  ActionResultBuilder(
      result: result,
      pendingBuilder: (_context) => Center(child: Text("No Data")),
      busyBuilder:  (_context) => Center(child: CircularProgressIndicator()),
      failedBuilder: (_context, error, _stackTrace) => Center(
        child: Text("Error: $error"),
      ),
      completedBuilder: (_context) => Center(child: Text("Completed")),
  );

Non critical state default builders

For ActionResultBuilder and QueryResultBuilder, completed and succeeded are considered as critical builder, which is mandatory each time to instantiate the Widget. While pendingBuilder, busyBuilder, and failedBuilder are optional, which can be omitted.

When the given builder is omitted, the ResultBuilder would search the widget hierarchy to find any default builder has been given. Just like Text would search DefaultTextStyle if textStyle is not explicitly given.

Accordingly, DefaultPendingResultBuilder, DefaultBusyResultBuilder, and DefaultFailedResultBuilder can be used to provide those default builders to their children along the widget tree.

DefaultResultBuilder

If more than one default builder needs to be configured, rather than nested DefaultXXXResultBuilder, which results a relatively ugly code, DefaultResultBuilder can be used, which allow to configure multiple default builders at once.

DefaultResultBuilder can be use to setup the unified UI style of a portion of the screen.

Global default builders

If optional builders are omitted, and no default builder are given. The ResultBuilder widget would uses something called global default builder to render the UI.

Which can be setup via

• DefaultPendingResultBuilder.globalBuilder
• DefaultBusyResultBuilder.globalBuilder
• DefaultFailedResultBuilder.globalBuilder

It also can be configured in batch via DefaultResultBuilder.setGlobalBuilder

Bloc Integration

Library provided the classes to integrate the [MultiStateResult] to Bloc

This library uses Cubit instead of Bloc, which is a simplified and easier-to-use Bloc.

• ActionCubit: A Cubit holds AsyncActionResult, it also provides protected methods to update its value from different kinds of Future
• QueryCubit<T>: A Cubit holds AsyncQueryResult<T>, it also provides protected methods to update its value from different kinds of Future

Both ActionCubit and QueryCubit can be provided into widget tree via BlocProvider

Bloc Builder and Bloc Consumer

Like BlocBuilder and BlocConsumer provided by Bloc_Flutter library, the following types are provided:

• ActionBlocBuilder: BlocBuilder that consumes ActionCubit via ActionResultBuilder
• ActionBlocConsumer: BlocConsumer that consumes ActionCubit via ActionResultBuilder
• QueryBlocBuilder: BlocBuilder that consumes QueryCubit via QueryResultBuilder
• QueryBlocConsumer: BlocConsumer that consumes QueryCubit via QueryResultBuilder

ValueNotifier Integration

Besides of Bloc, this library also provides the integration to [ValueNotifier] and [ListenableBuilder].

• ActionNotifier: A ValueNotifier holds AsyncActionResult, it also provides protected methods to update its value from different kinds of Future
• QueryNotifier<T>: A ValueNotifier holds AsyncQueryResult<T>, it also provides protected methods to update its value from different kinds of Future

Listenable Builder

Like `ListenableBuilder, the following classes are provided:

• ActionListenableBuilder: ListenableBuilder that consumes ActionNotifier via ActionResultBuilder
• QueryListenableBuilder: ListenableBuilder that consumes QueryNotifier via QueryResultBuilder