Flutter Firestore - How To Read And Write Arrays of Objects

So I've been struggling with reading and writing arrays of objects in Firestore using Flutter. For writing, the array never gets updated in Firestore and I don't know why. I've tried:

.updateData({"tasks": FieldValue.arrayUnion(taskList.tasks)});

and

.updateData(taskList.toMap());

but neither seem to do anything.

For reading, I usually get the error type 'List<dynamic>' is not a subtype of type 'List<Task>'. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my class structure but I can't figure it out. I've tried many different ways to get the data as a List of Tasks but all attempts have failed. Here is my current broken code:

TaskList.dart

class TaskList {

  String name;

  List<Task> tasks;



  TaskList(this.name, this.tasks);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {'name': name, 'tasks': tasks};



  TaskList.fromSnapshot(DocumentSnapshot snapshot)

      : name = snapshot['name'],

        tasks = snapshot['tasks'].map((item) {

          return Task.fromMap(item);

        }).toList();



}

Task.dart

class Task {

  String task;

  bool checked;



  Task(this.task, this.checked);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {

        'task': task,

        'checked': checked,

      };



  Task.fromMap(Map<dynamic, dynamic> map)

      : task = map['task'],

        checked = map['checked'];

}

Any help or advice is appreciated!

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

have a look at this answer please stackoverflow.com/a/53149420/2863386

– Shyju Madathil
Jan 3 at 6:24

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So I've been struggling with reading and writing arrays of objects in Firestore using Flutter. For writing, the array never gets updated in Firestore and I don't know why. I've tried:

.updateData({"tasks": FieldValue.arrayUnion(taskList.tasks)});

and

.updateData(taskList.toMap());

but neither seem to do anything.

TaskList.dart

class TaskList {

  String name;

  List<Task> tasks;



  TaskList(this.name, this.tasks);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {'name': name, 'tasks': tasks};



  TaskList.fromSnapshot(DocumentSnapshot snapshot)

      : name = snapshot['name'],

        tasks = snapshot['tasks'].map((item) {

          return Task.fromMap(item);

        }).toList();



}

Task.dart

class Task {

  String task;

  bool checked;



  Task(this.task, this.checked);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {

        'task': task,

        'checked': checked,

      };



  Task.fromMap(Map<dynamic, dynamic> map)

      : task = map['task'],

        checked = map['checked'];

}

Any help or advice is appreciated!

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

have a look at this answer please stackoverflow.com/a/53149420/2863386

– Shyju Madathil
Jan 3 at 6:24

add a comment |

So I've been struggling with reading and writing arrays of objects in Firestore using Flutter. For writing, the array never gets updated in Firestore and I don't know why. I've tried:

.updateData({"tasks": FieldValue.arrayUnion(taskList.tasks)});

and

.updateData(taskList.toMap());

but neither seem to do anything.

TaskList.dart

class TaskList {

  String name;

  List<Task> tasks;



  TaskList(this.name, this.tasks);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {'name': name, 'tasks': tasks};



  TaskList.fromSnapshot(DocumentSnapshot snapshot)

      : name = snapshot['name'],

        tasks = snapshot['tasks'].map((item) {

          return Task.fromMap(item);

        }).toList();



}

Task.dart

class Task {

  String task;

  bool checked;



  Task(this.task, this.checked);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {

        'task': task,

        'checked': checked,

      };



  Task.fromMap(Map<dynamic, dynamic> map)

      : task = map['task'],

        checked = map['checked'];

}

Any help or advice is appreciated!

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

So I've been struggling with reading and writing arrays of objects in Firestore using Flutter. For writing, the array never gets updated in Firestore and I don't know why. I've tried:

.updateData({"tasks": FieldValue.arrayUnion(taskList.tasks)});

and

.updateData(taskList.toMap());

but neither seem to do anything.

TaskList.dart

class TaskList {

  String name;

  List<Task> tasks;



  TaskList(this.name, this.tasks);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {'name': name, 'tasks': tasks};



  TaskList.fromSnapshot(DocumentSnapshot snapshot)

      : name = snapshot['name'],

        tasks = snapshot['tasks'].map((item) {

          return Task.fromMap(item);

        }).toList();



}

Task.dart

class Task {

  String task;

  bool checked;



  Task(this.task, this.checked);



  Map<String, dynamic> toMap() => {

        'task': task,

        'checked': checked,

      };



  Task.fromMap(Map<dynamic, dynamic> map)

      : task = map['task'],

        checked = map['checked'];

}

Any help or advice is appreciated!

firebase dart flutter google-cloud-firestore

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

asked Jan 2 at 19:24

Jared

270119

have a look at this answer please stackoverflow.com/a/53149420/2863386

– Shyju Madathil
Jan 3 at 6:24

add a comment |

have a look at this answer please stackoverflow.com/a/53149420/2863386

– Shyju Madathil
Jan 3 at 6:24

have a look at this answer please stackoverflow.com/a/53149420/2863386

– Shyju Madathil
Jan 3 at 6:24

add a comment |

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I ended up making the tasks list of type dynamic and that solved most of my reading problems. Still don't understand why though.

List<Task> tasks;

And for writing, I just changed the fromMap() to toMap() for initializing the tasks.

'tasks': tasks.map((item) {

      return item.toMap();

    }).toList(),

answered Jan 3 at 5:51

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I ended up making the tasks list of type dynamic and that solved most of my reading problems. Still don't understand why though.

List<Task> tasks;

And for writing, I just changed the fromMap() to toMap() for initializing the tasks.

'tasks': tasks.map((item) {

      return item.toMap();

    }).toList(),

answered Jan 3 at 5:51

Jared

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add a comment |

I ended up making the tasks list of type dynamic and that solved most of my reading problems. Still don't understand why though.

List<Task> tasks;

And for writing, I just changed the fromMap() to toMap() for initializing the tasks.

'tasks': tasks.map((item) {

      return item.toMap();

    }).toList(),

answered Jan 3 at 5:51

Jared

270119

add a comment |

I ended up making the tasks list of type dynamic and that solved most of my reading problems. Still don't understand why though.

List<Task> tasks;

And for writing, I just changed the fromMap() to toMap() for initializing the tasks.

'tasks': tasks.map((item) {

      return item.toMap();

    }).toList(),

answered Jan 3 at 5:51

Jared

270119

I ended up making the tasks list of type dynamic and that solved most of my reading problems. Still don't understand why though.

List<Task> tasks;

And for writing, I just changed the fromMap() to toMap() for initializing the tasks.

'tasks': tasks.map((item) {

      return item.toMap();

    }).toList(),

answered Jan 3 at 5:51

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answered Jan 3 at 5:51

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