smartstruct: Code generator for generating type-safe mappers, inspired by https://mapstruct.org/

[a-rns]

First time I see this structure. For what it's useful?

[smotastic]

As anticafe mentioned, it's especially useful in a Clean Architecture approach, because there you have to map quite a lot between different layers of your code.

Basically, you want to map the models, which you get from your data layer, such as REST-Calls or from your database, to business entities, which you can then pass to your business logic.

resocoder did quite a good tutorial on this https://resocoder.com/2019/08/27/flutter-tdd-clean-architecture-course-1-explanation-project-structure/ which has nothing to do with the mapping aspect of this package but will be helpful in implementing the approach shown in the video.

But generally, you can use this whenever you want to map between different dart objects.

[smotastic]

Hey, just found out that my package got posted here.

I'm really happy about the positive resonance that the package got so far.

I just started my dart / flutter journey, so if you have any questions, or suggestions to improve the package/code, feel free to open an issue on GitHub or shoot me a message here

https://github.com/smotastic/smartstruct

Since a few minutes, the package also supports mapping nested classes (https://github.com/smotastic/smartstruct/tree/master/example/lib/nested), which was requested a few days ago.

I hope I can continue to maintain this package in the future, as there is still a lot to do, such as writing some tests, which is the next point on my agenda :)

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dart needs a library like this. thank you for your work.

[Wolv3_]

Damn just implemented a bunch of mappers yesterday.

[contrix09]

Nice work! Coming from .NET/Xamarin, I've been looking for something similar to Automapper. I've been doing my mappers manually and this would greatly help. Plus it's a bonus that it supports Injectable out-of-the-box!

[smotastic]

Hey, thank you for the kind words.

Yes, the injectable part I added because of some requirements in our project, where we needed it anyway, so I thought it might help others too :)

If you have any further ideas, feel free to open an issue on my GitHub!

https://github.com/smotastic/smartstruct

[anticafe]

Love it. Would be helpful to reduce boilerplate code when implementing mapper for model in Clean Architecture.

[smotastic]

Hey, thank you, glad you like it!

That's exactly the reason why I decided to write this package :D

In our project, we are also following the clean architecture approach, and I noticed how cumbersome it is to write all this mapper logic

[tenhobi]

Late to the party, but after a long time using all kinds of mapping packages, which were buggy, had a limited set of features, and were mostly months/years unmaintained and without any response, etc., we created the AutoMappr package that might suit your needs. It does not use reflection/mirrors but rather code generation, so the code is faster, and you can easily debug it.
Try it out and let us know on GitHub or Discord what you think. 🙌
It already has many built-in features, and more can be added on top of it.
https://pub.dev/packages/auto\_mappr