Flutter Save Object on SharedPreferences - flutter

Question

I have a working json parsing from my commerce API. all are working fine except for storing the add cart product to the shared preferences. How can I achieve this? I got an error of type
'ProductsModel' is not a subtype of type 'Map<String, dynamic>';
Here's my ProductsModel
class ProductsList{
final List<ProductsModel> products;
ProductsList({this.products});
factory ProductsList.fromJSON(List<dynamic> parsedJson){
List <ProductsModel> productsList = new List<ProductsModel>();
productsList = parsedJson.map((i) => ProductsModel.fromJSON(i)).toList();
return new ProductsList(
products: productsList
);
}
}
class ProductsModel {
final int id;
final String name;
final String catalog_visibility;
final String description;
final String short_description;
final String price;
final String regular_price;
final String sale_price;
final String date_created;
final List<CategoriesModel> categories;
final List<ImagesModel> images;
ProductsModel(
{this.id,
this.name,
this.catalog_visibility,
this.description,
this.short_description,
this.price,
this.regular_price,
this.sale_price,
this.date_created,
this.categories,
this.images
});
factory ProductsModel.fromJSON(Map<String, dynamic> parsedJson) {
var categoriesList = parsedJson['categories'] as List;
var imagesList = parsedJson['images'] as List;
List<ImagesModel> dataImages = imagesList.map((i) => ImagesModel.fromJSON(i)).toList();
List<CategoriesModel> dataCategories =
categoriesList.map((i) => CategoriesModel.fromJSON(i)).toList();
return ProductsModel(
id: parsedJson['id'],
name: parsedJson['name'],
catalog_visibility: parsedJson['catalog_visibility'],
description: parsedJson['description'],
short_description: parsedJson['short_description'],
regular_price: parsedJson['regular_price'],
sale_price: parsedJson['sale_price'],
date_created: parsedJson['date_created'],
categories: dataCategories,
images: dataImages
);
}
}
class CategoriesModel {
final int id;
final String name;
CategoriesModel({this.id, this.name});
factory CategoriesModel.fromJSON(Map<String, dynamic> parsedJson) {
return CategoriesModel(id: parsedJson['id'], name: parsedJson['name']);
}
}
class ImagesModel{
final int id;
final String src;
final String name;
ImagesModel({this.id,this.src,this.name});
factory ImagesModel.fromJSON(Map<String,dynamic> parsedJson){
return ImagesModel(
id: parsedJson['id'],
src: parsedJson['src'],
name: parsedJson['name']
);
}
}
and I am testing to stored the ProductsModel only by using this function only
Here's my function
storedCart(products){
SharedPreferences prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
await prefs.setString('cart', products);
}

Answer 1

STEP 1 : Add a toMap() method in your class
Map<String,dynamic> toMap() {
var map = new Map<String, dynamic>();
map["id"] = id;
map["name"] = name;
map["description"] = description;
// Add all other fields
return map;
}
STEP 2 : While storing this in SharedPreferences call the toMap() method on the object
This will return a Map<String,dynamic> representation of your current object.
Map<String,dynamic> productsMap = products.toMap();
STEP 3 : Convert the object to String by using json.encode() and store it !
storedCart(productsMap){
SharedPreferences prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
await prefs.setString('cart', json.encode(productsMap));
}
Note :
Dont forget to import dart:convert
While retrieving the object don't forget to use json.decode()
If you are having trouble understanding why we used json.encode(), try printing the object before and after using the function, you'll notice that when we convert our object to JSON it becomes a big String, Therefore it is possible for us to store it in SharedPreferences using the "putString()" method.