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Code Generation

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This page is archived and might not reflect the latest version of the FlutterFire plugins. You can find the latest information on GitHub:

https://github.com/firebase/flutterfire/tree/master/packages/cloud_firestore_odm

Alpha Status

The Cloud Firestore ODM is currently in alpha. Expect breaking changes, API changes and more. The documentation is still a work in progress. See the discussion for more details.

The power of the ODM comes from code generation. The models created need to be run through code generation to allow for the full type safety which the ODM offers.

When defining models we include a part declaration - this declaration references a file which have not yet generated.

Within the root of your project, run the following command to run code generation against the defined models:

flutter pub run build_runner build --delete-conflicting-outputs

During development, you can watch for changes and automatically update the generated code:

flutter pub run build_runner watch --delete-conflicting-outputs

This will generate files with the postfix of .g.dart, corresponding to the file name of your model. For example:

  • A model is defined within a file named product.dart.
  • Code generation will create a file in the same directory named product.g.dart.
  • Within the product.dart file, apply the part declaration (part 'product.g.dart').

Next steps#

With our code generated, we can now start to use the references.

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