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When working with lists in Flutter, you may encounter situations where you need to filter the list based on certain conditions. A common scenario is having a list of movies and wanting to display only those that are animated. This article will guide you through the process of filtering a list to meet such conditions.
Understanding List Filtering in Flutter
Flutter provides a convenient way to filter lists using the where method. This method allows you to iterate over the elements of a list and apply a condition to filter elements. The where method returns an Iterable, which can be converted to a List using the toList method.
Example: Filtering Animated Movies
Suppose you have a list of movies, each represented by an object with a property isAnimated that indicates whether the movie is animated. To filter and display only animated movies, you can use the following approach:
List allMovies = [...]; // Your list of movies
List animatedMovies = allMovies.where((movie) => movie.isAnimated).toList();
This code snippet efficiently filters the list of movies, returning only those with the isAnimated flag set to true.
Alternative Approaches
There are various ways to achieve similar results using different approaches. For instance:
- Using a custom function to filter based on different criteria:
List getCategoryList(List inputList) {
return inputList.where((o) => o['category_id'] == '1').toList();
}
List strings = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five'];
List filteredStrings = strings.where((item) => item.length == 3).toList();
These examples illustrate the versatility of the where method in different contexts.
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