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Allen Andre Indefenzo
Allen Andre Indefenzo

Reputation: 311

Adding An Array to Cloud Firestore (Flutter/Dart)

Hello I'm trying to add a document to my collection named 'fitbit_activity' that has an array of Distances, this is a model I made on my own based on the JSON of Fitbit. So here is how the model looks like: 

class Distances {
  String activity;
  var distance;

  Distances({this.activity, this.distance});

  factory Distances.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> parsedJson) {
    return Distances(
        activity: parsedJson['activity'],
        distance: parsedJson['distance'].toDouble());
  }
}

Here is what the API Response for 'Distances' Look like : 

    "distances": [
        {
            "activity": "total",
            "distance": 5.94
        },
        {
            "activity": "tracker",
            "distance": 5.94
        },
        {
            "activity": "loggedActivities",
            "distance": 0
        },
        {
            "activity": "veryActive",
            "distance": 1.92
        },
        {
            "activity": "moderatelyActive",
            "distance": 0.46
        },
        {
            "activity": "lightlyActive",
            "distance": 3.26
        },
        {
            "activity": "sedentaryActive",
            "distance": 0.23
        }
    ],

And Finally here is my code to add the data to my firestore db:

db = Firestore.instance();
    await db
        .collection('users')
        .document(userData[index].uID)
        .collection('fitbit_activity')
        .document(DateFormat.yMMMd().format(today))
        .setData({
      'caloriesBMR': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.caloriesBMR,
      'caloriesBurned': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.caloriesBurned,
      'fairlyActiveMinutes': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.lightlyActiveMinutes,
      'lightlyActiveMinutes': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.fairlyActiveMinutes,
      'veryActiveMinutes': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.veryActiveMinutes,
      'sedentaryMinutes': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.sedentaryMinutes,
      'steps': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.steps,
      'restingHeartRate': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.restingHeartRate,
      'distances': _fitbitActivityApiVar.summary.distances //I am getting an error here
    });

Here is the error:

E/flutter ( 4149): [ERROR:flutter/lib/ui/ui_dart_state.cc(148)] Unhandled Exception: Invalid argument: Instance of 'Distances'
E/flutter ( 4149): #0      StandardMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:392
E/flutter ( 4149): #1      FirestoreMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:cloud_firestore/src/firestore_message_codec.dart:64
E/flutter ( 4149): #2      StandardMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:382
E/flutter ( 4149): #3      FirestoreMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:cloud_firestore/src/firestore_message_codec.dart:64
E/flutter ( 4149): #4      StandardMessageCodec.writeValue.<anonymous closure> 
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:389
E/flutter ( 4149): #5      _LinkedHashMapMixin.forEach  (dart:collection-patch/compact_hash.dart:377:8)
E/flutter ( 4149): #6      StandardMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:387
E/flutter ( 4149): #7      FirestoreMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:cloud_firestore/src/firestore_message_codec.dart:64
E/flutter ( 4149): #8      StandardMessageCodec.writeValue.<anonymous closure> 
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:389
E/flutter ( 4149): #9      _LinkedHashMapMixin.forEach  (dart:collection-patch/compact_hash.dart:377:8)
E/flutter ( 4149): #10     StandardMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:387
E/flutter ( 4149): #11     FirestoreMessageCodec.writeValue 
package:cloud_firestore/src/firestore_message_codec.dart:64
E/flutter ( 4149): #12     StandardMethodCodec.encodeMethodCall 
package:flutter/…/services/message_codecs.dart:524
E/flutter ( 4149): #13     MethodChannel.invokeMethod 
package:flutter/…/services/platform_channel.dart:311
E/flutter ( 4149): <asynchronous suspension>
E/flutter ( 4149): #14     DocumentReference.setData 
package:cloud_firestore/src/document_reference.dart:51

Should I write a loop inside the map, so I can add it to my database? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in Advance!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1910

Answers (1)

Dennis Alund
Dennis Alund

Reputation: 3179

Looks like you're missing a serialization method for your Distances class.

Add a toJson method that does this:

class Distances {
  ...
  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() {
    return {
      "activity": activity,
      "distance": distance,
    };
  }
}

Then you have to add a call to that method for each item in your array before you store the data to Firestore

 ...
  'distances': _fitbitActivityApiVar
    .summary
    .distances
    .map((distance) => distance.toJson())
    .toList(),
});

Hope that works for you

Upvotes: 1

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