flutter_data 0.5.2

The seamless way to work with persistent data models in Flutter. Inspired by Ember Data and ActiveRecord.

Flutter Data

Flutter Data is the seamless way to work with persistent data models in Flutter.

Inspired by Ember Data and ActiveRecord.

Features

• Auto-generated repositories (REST clients) for all models 🚀
  • CRUD and custom actions on remote API
  • StateNotifier, Future and Stream APIs
• Built for offline-first 🔌
  • uses Hive at its core for caching & local storage
  • included read/write retry offline adapter
• Effortless setup ⏰
  • Automatically pre-configured for provider, riverpod and get_it
  • Convention over configuration powered by Dart mixins
• Exceptional relationship support ⚡️
  • Automatically synchronized, traversable relationship graph
  • Reactive relationships
• Clean, intuitive API and minimal boilerplate 💙
  • Truly configurable and composable
  • Scales very well (both up and down)

Check out the Documentation or the Tutorial 📚 where we build a CRUD app from the ground app in record time.

Getting started

See the quickstart guide in the docs.

👩🏾‍💻 Usage

For a given User model annotated with @DataRepository...

@JsonSerializable()
@DataRepository([MyJSONServerAdapter])
class User with DataModel<User> {
  @override
  final int id;
  final String name;
  User({this.id, this.name});
}

mixin MyJSONServerAdapter on RemoteAdapter<User> {
  @override
  String get baseUrl => "https://my-json-server.typicode.com/flutterdata/demo/";
}

• id can be of int, String, etc
• User.fromJson and toJson are not required!

After a code-gen build, Flutter Data will generate a Repository<User>:

// obtain it via Provider
final repository = context.watch<Repository<User>>();

return DataStateBuilder<List<User>>(
  notifier: () => repository.watchAll();
  builder: (context, state, notifier, _) {
    if (state.isLoading) {
      return CircularProgressIndicator();
    }
    // state.model is a list of 10 user items
    return ListView.builder(
      itemBuilder: (context, i) {
        return UserTile(state.model[i]);
      },
    );
  }
}

repository.watchAll() will make an HTTP request (to https://my-json-server.typicode.com/flutterdata/demo/users in this case), parse the incoming JSON and listen for any further changes to the User collection – whether those are local or remote!

state is of type DataState which has loading/error/data substates. Moreover, notifier.reload() is available, useful for the classic "pull-to-refresh" scenario.

In addition to the reactivity, a User now gets extensions and automatic relationships, ActiveRecord-style:

final todo = await Todo(title: 'Finish docs').init(context).save();
// POST https://my-json-server.typicode.com/flutterdata/demo/todos/
print(todo.id); // 201

final user = await repository.findOne(1, params: { '_embed': 'todos' });
// GET https://my-json-server.typicode.com/flutterdata/demo/users/1?_embed=todos
print(user.todos.length); // 20

await user.todos.last.delete();

For an in-depth example check out the Tutorial.

Fully functional app built with Flutter Data? See the code for the finished Flutter Data TO-DOs Sample App.

Compatibility

Fully compatible with the tools we know and love:

Flutter	✅	It can also be used with pure Dart
json_serializable	✅	Not required! Other fromJson/toJson can be supplied
JSON REST API	✅	Great support
JSON:API	✅	Great support
Firebase	✅	Adapter coming soon 🎉 as well as Firebase Auth
Provider	✅	Not required! Configure in a few lines of code
Riverpod	✅	Not required! Configure in a few lines of code
get_it	✅	Not required! Configure in a few lines of code
BLoC	✅	Great support
Freezed	✅	Good support
Flutter Web	✅	Great support
Hive	✅	Flutter Data uses Hive internally for local storage
Chopper/Retrofit		Not required: Flutter Data generates its own REST clients

📲 Apps using Flutter Data

The new offline-first Scout Flutter app is being developed in record time with Flutter Data.

➕ Questions and collaborating

Please use Github to ask questions, open issues and send PRs. Thanks!

You can also hit me up on Twitter @thefrank06

Tests can be run with: pub run test

📝 License

See LICENSE.