Constructing MovieModel
Understand how to construct a MovieModel class in Dart to parse and map movie data from the TMDB API JSON response. This lesson teaches you to organize API data into accessible class properties, simplifying app development and reducing errors when displaying movie information.
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Introduction
In this lesson, we’ll create a MovieModel Dart class to parse the JSON response returned from API.
MovieModel class will have properties for each of the data['results'] JSON attributes returned as API response.
Revisiting TMDB API response structure
The JSON response returned from TMDB API looks like a huge blob of string. It could be hard to access the attributes by calling their names every time from code. A spelling mistake can make debugging very hard.
To avoid this problem, it makes sense to create a Dart object mapped to the response. We will call this class MovieModel.
Earlier, if you would want to access the “title” of the movie, you had to ...