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devfoz
devfoz

Reputation: 166

flutter what is the point of that usage

when I'm looking for codes in open resource flutter project, a user used a model like this. I could not get the idea here. Does not it need to use a getter what is the point in the curly braces term:

_email = email;
_password = password;

class LoginModel {
  String? _email;
  String? _password;

  LoginModel({
    String? email,
    String? password,
  }) {
    _email = email;
    _password = password;
  }

  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() {
    var map = <String, dynamic>{};
    map["email"] = _email;
    map["password"] = _password;
    return map;
  }

  set email(String value) => _email = value;
  set password(String value) => _password = value;
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (2)

Gabriel Araujo
Gabriel Araujo

Reputation: 46

Actually, you have a couple of options there:

  1. Instead of having the class parameters as private and named, you could have them only private and do like this (if you want them to be private, they can't be named because the other classes wouldn't be able to see the names):

    LoginModel(
        this._email,
        this._password,
      )

  2. You could make them named and necessary to instantiate the class by adding the required tag with them and removing the private indicator _, like this:

    LoginModel({
        required this.email,
        required this.password,
      })

  3. Or you could just make them named and not necessary (since they are nullable):

    LoginModel({
        this.email,
        this.password,
      })

Upvotes: 1

Developer Extraordinare
Developer Extraordinare

Reputation: 605

I highly recommend watching some language overviews for dart or checking out the documentation here. But to answer your questions:

  1. The underscore shows that the variables are meant to be private.
  2. The curly braces show optional parameters. So someone initializing the login model could do any of the following:
    LoginModel()
    LoginModel(email: "")
    LoginModel(password: "")
    LoginModel(email: "", password: "")

Non optional parameters are initialized outside of curly braces. If I wanted email to be required and not password I could do the following: LoginModel(String email, {String? password})

Upvotes: 0

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