Casting Lists and Maps in Dart

Another short Dart tip today, and another one that occurred while testing some dart code, but most useful for me when parsing JSON.

Lists

For List<dynamic> I got from a JSON Map, when trying to save them as List<String> the errors like:

type 'List<dynamic>' is not a subtype of type 'List<String>' 

The fix is as simple as using something like that:

List<String> correctList = <dynamic>[].cast<String>();

Maps

And for JSON maps that I needed to be parsed as Map<String, String>:

type '_InternalLinkedHashMap<String, dynamic>' is not a subtype of type 'Map<String, String>?' 

Here the fix is very similar to our List<dynamic> situation:

Map<String, String> correctMap = Map<String, dynamic>().cast<String, String>();

Enjoy your collection casting!