How to parse an object variable in eventChannel callback method? - flutter

Question

I am programming a flutter app, in which I have a callback from the native system containing some nfc information. I register the callback via the following line of code:
eventChannel.receiveBroadcastStream().listen(_onEvent, onError: _onError);
The callback looks like this:
void _onEvent(Object event) {
//Receive Event
print("NFC Event received");
//Get the Payload
event['Payload']; //This does not work, it gives an error
}
But how can I parse out the data? I know it contains a field by the name Payload however, I cannot access it via event['Payload'].
I am very confused, I tried to cast it to another type like this: Map<String, String> eventMap = Map<String, String>.from(event); but that didnt work. Could someone please point out what I am doing wrong and how I can correctly extract the data?

Answer 1

Without too much information of native part, I suggest
you can reference this package or fork this https://github.com/akeblom/flutter-nfc-reader
directly
this repo fix some issue of pub.dev and work well in real device
the dart code you need reside in
https://github.com/akeblom/flutter-nfc-reader/blob/master/lib/flutter_nfc_reader.dart
void _onEvent(dynamic data) {
print("Event");
print(data);
}
Edit add more detail
akeblom has add Write NFC capability to IOS, so IOS part should work. please ue this fork https://github.com/akeblom/flutter-nfc-reader
For IOS MissingPluginException issue, I do not have IOS, I suggest you can ask akeblom
The data part you mentioned in comments if I do not misunderstand is line 77, please see describe below
In Android part.
https://github.com/akeblom/flutter-nfc-reader/blob/master/android/src/main/kotlin/it/matteocrippa/flutternfcreader/FlutterNfcReaderPlugin.kt
line 174, use kotlin mapOf returns a new read-only map with the specified contents and eventSink.success result to Dart
if (message != null) {
val data = mapOf(kId to id, kContent to message, kError to "", kStatus to "read")
eventSink?.success(data)
}
In https://github.com/akeblom/flutter-nfc-reader/blob/master/lib/flutter_nfc_reader.dart
line 22, with named constructor
factory NfcData.fromMap(Map data) {
NfcData result = NfcData(
id: data['nfcId'],
content: data['nfcContent'],
error: data['nfcError'],
statusMapper: data['nfcStatus'],
);
In line 77, NFC read start and _onEvent(dynamic data) get the data.
stream use this named constructor, and parse data, here with map((result)) transfer to NfcData
static Stream<NfcData> get read {
final resultStream = _channel
.invokeMethod('NfcRead')
.asStream()
.asyncExpand((_) => stream
.receiveBroadcastStream()
.map((result) => NfcData.fromMap(result)));
return resultStream;
In https://github.com/akeblom/flutter-nfc-reader/blob/master/example/lib/main.dart
line 33, response has transfered to NfCData, so example just use _nfcData = response;
FlutterNfcReader.read.listen((response) {
setState(() {
_nfcData = response;
});
});

Answer 2

The simplest way I found to parse an event to a Map is the following:
I encoded the variable to a String (but I use json.encode(event)instead of event.toString()as encode(event)returns a valid string.
Then I use this string to construct a map via json.decode. All of this is achieved with the flutter native library dart:convert. The complete code looks like this:
import 'dart:convert';
...
void _onEvent(dynamic event) {
//Receive Event
print("NFC Event received");
String str = json.encode(event);
Map eventMap = json.decode(str);
}

Answer 3

Have you tried event.toString()? It might return a string containing the field you are trying to get, from which you can easily parse the value.
You may also want to try:
Class<?> clazz = event.getClass();
Field payload= clazz.getField("Payload"); //Note, this can throw an exception if the field doesn't exist.
String fieldValue = payload.toString();
If it isn't returning what you want, you may need to make an interface for the object type, with a get method, or override the toString method to get return the Payload value.