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Converting API Response to MovieModel List

Explore how to convert JSON responses from a movie API into MovieModel objects in Flutter. Learn to fetch, parse, and display movie data while managing widget lifecycle to improve performance.

Converting JSON to MovieModel object

You’ll convert the API response to MovieModel objects before adding to the movies list.

//List of movies to hold data parsed from api response
List<MovieModel> movies = List<MovieModel>();

fetchMovies() async {

// Fetching data from server
 var data = await MoviesProvider.getJson();

 setState(() {
//Holding data from server in generic list results
   List<dynamic> results = data['results'];

//Iterating over results list and converting to MovieModel
   results.forEach((element) {
     
//adding MovieModel object
...