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 do data['results']['title']. ...