How to Map Flutter JSON Strings from List?

Question

I'm successfully printing my response as String from my YouTube JSON url, but when I try to serialize through the "items" I get the following error Unhandled exception: type 'List' is not a subtype of type 'Map' of 'json' where List is from dart:core Map is from dart:core

Here is my code...

class CardInfo {
  //Constructor
  String id;
  String description;
  String role;
  //int score;

  CardInfo.fromJson(Map json) {
    this.id = json['vieoId'];
    this.description = json['description'];
    this.role = json['title'];
    //this.score = json['score'];
  }
}

Future getData() async {
    String url = 'YouTube url';
    var httpClient  = createHttpClient();
    var response = await httpClient.get(url);
    Map data = JSON.decode(response.body);
    //String ip = data['items'];
    var ci = new CardInfo.fromJson(data['items']);

    //print(data['items']);
    print(ci.id);
    //print(ci.description);
    //print(ci.role);

    if (!mounted) return;


    setState(() {});

  }

print(data['items'] is printing, but print(ci.id) or any Card Info variables throws the above error.

**** Log of print(data);

{kind: youtube#searchListResponse, etag: "VPWTmrH7dFmi4s1RqrK4tLejnRI/P9wyOxsXEuXOCvj7znCun2-EykU", nextPageToken: CAMQAA, regionCode: US, pageInfo: {totalResults: 1000000, resultsPerPage: 3}, items: [{kind: youtube#searchResult, etag: "VPWTmrH7dFmi4s1RqrK4tLejnRI/Csl1kQhnOsbs0j4_336zJAN176k", id: {kind: youtube#video, videoId: e3pUxU_bE6w}, snippet: {publishedAt: 2017-09-14T09:43:17.000Z, channelId: UCbD8EppRX3ZwJSou-TVo90A, title: [PRISTIN - We Like] KPOP TV Show | M COUNTDOWN 170914 EP.541, description: KPOP Chart Show M COUNTDOWN | EP.541 - PRISTIN - We Like ▷Watch more video clips: http://MCOUNTDOWN-KPOP2017 [Kor Ver.] 프리티 ..., thumbnails: {default: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e3pUxU_bE6w/default.jpg, width: 120, height: 90}, medium: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e3pUxU_bE6w/mqdefault.jpg, width: 320, height: 180}, high: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/e3pUxU_bE6w/hqdefault.jpg, width: 480, height: 360}}, channelTitle: Mnet K-POP, liveBroadcastContent: none}}, {kind: youtube#searchResult, etag: "VPWTmrH7dFmi4s1RqrK4tLejnRI/1JCCNBPNbFeusCp_9-pl4i8q5OU", id: {kind: youtube#video, videoId: Cc4hO9RLdl4}, snippet: {publishedAt: 2017-09-14T10:37:29.000Z, channelId: UCbD8EppRX3ZwJSou-TVo90A, title: [EXO - Power] KPOP TV Show | M COUNTDOWN 170914 EP.541, description: KPOP Chart Show M COUNTDOWN | EP.541 - EXO - Power ▷Watch more video clips: http://MCOUNTDOWN-KPOP2017 [Kor Ver.] Power Up! '#EXO' 여기 ..., thumbnails: {default: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cc4hO9RLdl4/default.jpg, width: 120, height: 90}, medium: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cc4hO9RLdl4/mqdefault.jpg, width: 320, height: 180}, high: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Cc4hO9RLdl4/hqdefault.jpg, width: 480, height: 360}}, channelTitle: Mnet K-POP, liveBroadcastContent: none}}, {kind: youtube#searchResult, etag: "VPWTmrH7dFmi4s1RqrK4tLejnRI/ZnYC4e5evyfldkM67HsDuV8Yh3E", id: {kind: youtube#video, videoId: BBcOM25wrVo}, snippet: {publishedAt: 2017-08-18T15:21:48.000Z, channelId: UCtFtO4By4czgkYGvEXvJu0A, title: Kpop Banned Dance: MV vs LIVE, description: Kpop Banned Dance: MV vs LIVE Koreas biggest broadcasting companies has strict rules and standards on what lyrics and dances moves can be performed., thumbnails: {default: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BBcOM25wrVo/default.jpg, width: 120, height: 90}, medium: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BBcOM25wrVo/mqdefault.jpg, width: 320, height: 180}, high: {url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BBcOM25wrVo/hqdefault.jpg, width: 480, height: 360}}, channelTitle: Kpop Corn, liveBroadcastContent: none}}]}

*** UPDATE WITH FOR LOOP STATEMENT

Here is code for my for loop that's returning a type 'String' is not a subtype of type 'int' of 'index' error...

Map data = JSON.decode(response);
var videos = data['items'];
for (var items in videos['snippet']){
      print(items);
    }

Running a loop through items in videos gives me 3 separate entries for the 3 videos I'm looking for - including snippets. Trying to get the individual snippets is failing. Please point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

It looks like data['items'] is a List (i.e. a JSON Array), not a Map.

You can use list comprehension methods to help here:

final items = (data['items'] as List).map((i) => new CardInfo.fromJson(i));
for (final item in items) {
  print(item.id);
}

Answer 2

The following line gives you the List of items.

var videos = data['items'];

and you get the error because of this line

for(var items in videos['snippet'])

In the previous line you think you are iterating on the data inside snippet, while in fact, you are trying to iterate on the index 'snippet' inside the list of videos, which does not make sense because iterating over any list happens using integer values videos[0] , videos [1], videos [2] .. while you are passing a String 'snippet'

You need first to iterate on your videos list item by item (each item is a Map). Store each Map in a variable. then you can access the values of snippet by myMap['snippet']

    Map data = JSON.decode(response);
    var videos = data['items']; //returns a List of Maps
    for (var items in videos){ //iterate over the list
    Map myMap = items; //store each map 
    print(myMap['snippet']);
        }

See if this solves your problem.