ibrahim-mubarak / redux_future

A Redux Middleware to handle Dart Future as Actions

Redux Future Middleware (Dart/Flutter)

Redux middleware package for handling Dart Futures by creating a FutureAction.

The futureMiddleware can be attached to the Redux store upon construction.

Once attached, you can store.dipatch the FutureAction, and the futureMiddleware will intercept it.

• If the Future passed in FutureAction completes successfully, a FutureSucceededAction will be dipatched with the result of the Future.
• If the Future passed in FutureAction fails, a FutureFailedAction will be dispatched containing the error that was returned.
• When the FutureAction dispatches, a FuturePendingAction is dispatched from the futureMiddleware for consumption by the Reducer.

Usage:

main() {
    // First, create an appState, which will store the state of the app at any instant.
    class AppState {
        String value;
        String loadingValue;
    }

    // Then, create an action to uniquely identify each FutureAction from others.
    class ExampleAction {}

    // Then, create a reducer that knows how to handle the future actions
    AppState exampleReducer(AppState prevState, dynamic action) {
        if (action is FuturePendingAction<ExampleAction>) {
            return prevState
                        ..loadingValue='Fetching';
        } else if (action is FutureSucceededAction<ExampleAction, String>) {
            return prevState
                        ..value=action.payload
                        ..loadingValue='Done';
        } else if (action is FutureFailedAction<ExampleAction>) {
            return prevState
                        ..loadingValue='Failed';
        }

        return prevState;
    }

    // Next, create a store that includes `futureMiddleware`. It will
    // intercept all `FutureAction` that are dispatched.
    final store = Store(
        exampleReducer,
        middleware: [futureMiddleware],
    );

    // Next, dispatch `FutureAction` for intercepting.
    store.dipatch(FutureAction<ExampleAction, String>(
        future: Future.value('Hi')));
}

Simplifying reducer logic:

This library now ships with a FutureReducer utility. This helps in reducing the overall redundant logic that has to be written when creating reducers for FuturePendingAction and FutureFailedAction with a little bit of setup code.

Built-in defaults

With built-in defaults the above example can be written as follows:

class AppState extends BaseState<AppState> {
    String value;
}

FutureReducer<AppState, ExampleAction, String> exampleReducer =
    FutureReducer<AppState, ExampleAction, String>(
    successReducer: successReducer,
);

In order to work with built-in defaults, our AppState should extend from a BaseState class which in turn extends from FutureState. Then the BaseState class will become the parent of any state which needs to implement FutureActions. For the above example, the BaseState might look like this:

class BaseState extends FutureState<BaseState> {

    String loadingValue;

    @override
    BaseState updateOnFailed(FutureFailedAction action) => this
        ..loadingValue = "Failed";

    @override
    BaseState updateOnPending(FuturePendingAction action) => this
        ..loadingValue = "Fetching";
}

Custom Defaults:

In order to give more flexibility, if you don't want to use FutureState with built-in defaults, you can set your own default pendingReducer and failedReducer on FutureReducerDefaults class and use your own implementation.

Situational custom reducers:

Sometimes you may want to use custom pendingReducer or failedReducer for a specific action. In such scenarioas, you can provide the custom reducer directly when creating the FutureReducer instance. These reducers will take precedence over the default ones only for this particular instance.

FutureReducer<AppState, ExampleAction, String> exampleReducer =
    FutureReducer<AppState, ExampleAction, String>(
    successReducer: successReducer,
    pendingReducer: pendingReducer,
    failedReducer: failedReducer,
);

Credits:

• Brian Egan, for the inspiration on developing it.
• Ibrahim Mubarak Hussain, for lending a helping hand.