Flutter remove duplicates from list of objects

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Flutter: Remove Duplicates from List of Objects

In Flutter, if you have a list of objects and you want to remove duplicates based on certain criteria, you can follow the steps below:

  1. Create a class for the object, let’s say MyObject, with all the necessary properties.
  2. Override the == and hashCode methods in the MyObject class based on the criteria you want to use for duplicate comparison.

    
class MyObject {
  final int id;
  final String name;

  MyObject(this.id, this.name);

  @override
  bool operator ==(Object other) {
    if (identical(this, other)) return true;
    return other is MyObject && other.id == id && other.name == name;
  }

  @override
  int get hashCode => id.hashCode ^ name.hashCode;
}

    In this example, we’re considering objects with the same id and name as duplicates.

  3. Create a list of objects, and you want to remove duplicates from this list. 
    
List objects = [
  MyObject(1, 'Apple'),
  MyObject(2, 'Banana'),
  MyObject(3, 'Apple'), // Duplicate
  MyObject(4, 'Orange'),
  MyObject(2, 'Banana'), // Duplicate
  MyObject(5, 'Grapes')
];
  4. To remove duplicates from the list, you can use the toSet() method to convert the list to a set, and then convert the set back to a list.

    
List uniqueObjects = objects.toSet().toList();
  5. The uniqueObjects list will now contain the objects without any duplicates based on the criteria specified in the == and hashCode methods of MyObject class.

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