state_beacon

What's Changed

• add asError getter to the AsyncValue base class and its AsyncError subsclass by @zupat in #196

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.1.1

• [Feat] Add asError getter to the AsyncValue. This allows users to easily retrieve the AsyncError instance when the state is an error, or null otherwise.

What's Changed

• refactor: improve edge-case status check logic in DerivedSubscription by @zupat in #173
• refactor: simplify status comparison in stale method for DerivedBeacon and DerivedSubscription by @zupat in #174
• Feat: Add ProgressBeacon by @zupat in #179
• Refactor/progress-beacon by @zupat in #180
• feat: add ProgressStatus enum and update ProgressBeacon status management by @zupat in #182

New Contributors

• @0rzech made their first contribution in #178

Full Changelog: v3.0.1...v3.1.0

• [Feat] Add ProgressBeacon (Beacon.progress) with support for status tracking (ProgressStatus), manual control (start/stop/pause/resume), looping, and BeaconGroup integration.

• [Refactor] Internal improvements for DerivedSubscription and DerivedBeacon status propagation.

What's Changed

• refactor error handling in FutureBeacon to use pattern matching by @zupat in #169
• fix: edgecase in derived sub with startNow=false by @zupat in #171

Full Changelog: v3.0.0...v3.0.1

• [Fix] Bug where subscriptions to derived beacons with startNow=false would not run when the beacon was accessed after the subscription was created but before the next value was emitted.

What's Changed

• [Breaking] anyBeacon.next() now throws if the beacon is disposed while waiting for the next value. This is a breaking change because previously it would complete with the current value if the beacon was disposed.

• [Feat] Add anyBeacon.nextOrNull() method that returns null if the beacon is disposed while waiting for the next value.

Full Changelog: v2.0.3...v3.0.0

• [Breaking] anyBeacon.next() now throws if the beacon is disposed while waiting for the next value. This is a breaking change because previously it would complete with the current value if the beacon was disposed.

• [Feat] Add anyBeacon.nextOrNull() method that returns null if the beacon is disposed while waiting for the next value.

• [chore] Update repo links

What's Changed

• fix- dirty status calculation in derived which behaved wrong when the value is nullable by @JinyuS in #164
• V2.0.3-release by @JinyuS in #165

Full Changelog: v2.0.2...v2.0.3

-[Fix] Nullable derived beacons didn't send notifications in some instances.

What's Changed

• Create special class for subscriptions on derived beacons by @JinyuS in #159
• V2.0.1-release by @JinyuS in #160
• Add BeaconGroup.textEditing by @JinyuS in #161
• add select extension methods to beaconcontroller by @JinyuS in #162
• V2.0.2-release by @JinyuS in #163

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.0.2

• [Feature] Add select,select2 and select3 methods to BeaconController which makes it easier to watch 1-3 beacons from a Controller.

final (age, name) = myController.select2(context, (c) => (c.ageBeacon, c.nameBeacon));

• [Feature] add BeaconGroup.textEditing() as a more convenient way of creating a TextEditingBeacon that's tied to a group.

old:

final usernameField = TextEditingBeacon(text:'', group:B)

new:

final usernameField =  B.textEditing(text:'')

• [Refactor] Internal efficiency refactor.

What's Changed

Breaking Changes

• Remove synchronous subscriptions on DerivedBeacon: Only available for Writable and BufferedBeacons.

• Chaining methods are now asynchronous: ie: map, filter, debounce, throttle, buffer, and bufferTime now operate asynchronously

• Immutable chained beacons: The beacons returned from chaining methods are now immutable.

• Stream access change: anyBeacon.toStream() is now anyBeacon.stream

• Filter allowFirst parameter: The lazyBypass parameter in FilteredBeacon was replaced with allowFirst (set to false by default)

• Debounce allowFirst parameter: Added allowFirst parameter to lazyDebounced and debounce chain method (set to false by default)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/jinyus/dart_beacon/blob/647fb0bdb664533fdefdfae106255652c6ad18b9/packages/state_beacon/CHANGELOG.md

• [Breaking] anyBeacon.toStream() is now anyBeacon.stream

• [Breaking] The lazyBypass parameter in .filter() chain method was replaced with allowFirst (set to false by default).

  Previously, the first value sent to a lazy filtered beacon would not be filtered as lazyBypass was true by default. This caused confusion as most persons expect it to be filtered. The name of the parameter has been changed to allowFirst and it is set to false by default.

  OLD

  final count = Beacon.writable(0);
  final gtThan10 = count.filter((prev,next) => next>10);
  
  expect(gtThan10.peek(), 0); // first value was set immediately
  

  NEW

  final count = Beacon.writable(0);
  final gtThan10 = count.filter((prev,next) => next>10);
  
  expect(gtThan10.peek, throwsException) // no value has been set as yet
  
  count.value = 20;
  
  await gtThan10.next();
  
  expect(d.peek(), 20) // value set after passing the filter
  

• [Breaking] Added allowFirst parameter to lazyDebounced and .debounce() chain method (set to false by default)

  Previously, the first value sent to a lazy debounced beacon would not be debounced. It is now debounced by default and you can allow the first value to go through by setting allowFirst to true.

  OLD

  final ms500 = Duration(milliseconds:500);
  final count = Beacon.writable(0);
  final d = count.debounce(ms500);
  
  expect(d.peek(), 0); // first value was set immediately
  

  NEW

  final ms500 = Duration(milliseconds:500);
  final count = Beacon.writable(0);
  final d = count.debounce(ms500);
  
  expect(d.peek, throwsException) // no value has been set as yet
  
  await Future.delayed(ms500*2);
  
  expect(d.peek(), 0) // value set after being debounced
  

• [Breaking] synchronous parameter has been removed from the .subscribe() method. Synchronous subscriptions are only available for Writable and Buffered beacons through the .subscribeSynchronously() method.

• [Breaking] Chaining methods are now asynchronous and return immutable beacons. ie: map, filter, debounce, throttle, buffer, and bufferTime.

  These being writable complicated the codebase as writes had to be rerouted to the first mutable beacon in the chain. The alternative is to mutate the original beacon directly.

What's Changed

• fix: defer synchronous subscription disposal to prevent RangeError by @JinyuS in #154

Full Changelog: v1.3.3...v1.3.4

• [Fix] synchronous subscription RangeError when disposed in it's callback.

What's Changed

• Deprecate supportConditional parameter in effect methods by @JinyuS in #146
• persist forced sets for throttled beacon by @JinyuS in #147
• fix: update remove method to notify only on successful removal by @JinyuS in #148
• fix: update remove method to notify only on successful removal by @JinyuS in #149
• Fix previousValue assignment logic and update tests by @JinyuS in #150
• Prevent immediate callback invocation for subscriptions with startNow=false by @JinyuS in #151

Full Changelog: v1.3.2...v1.3.3

• [Deprecate] deprecate supportConditional parameter in effect methods. This param was already ignored in v0.34.0 but wasn't marked as deprecated
• [Fix] forced writes to throttled beacons incorrectly dropped the force flag when those writes were added to the buffer.
• [Fix] Map.remove,List.remove and Set.remove no longer notifies listerners when nothing was removed.
• [Fix] previousValue was incorrectly set when using lazy beacons
• [Fix] Edge case where a subscription to a derived beacon with startNow=false would run immediately

What's Changed

• Fix method chaining for derived sources by @JinyuS in #142
• V1.3.1-release by @JinyuS in #143
• Make sure dispose is only called once by @JinyuS in #145

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.2

• [Fix] Minor improvement by removing internal redundant method call

• [Fix] Chaining methods on derived beacons now eagerly fetches the value allowing it to be used instantly.

final count = Beacon.writable<int>(0);

final throttled = Beacon.derived(() => count.value * 2).throttle(k10ms);

expect(throttled.value, 0);

• [Feat] Add queuing to FutureBeacon.updateWith() The updateWith method calls are now queued when there is an ongoing update. This ensures that all calls are executed in the order they were made, preventing race conditions and inconsistent state.

• [Feat] Add Future.updateWith()

The updateWith method allows you to update a FutureBeacon's value with the provided callback. This differs from overrideWith because it updates the value only once, while overrideWith replaces the original callback supplied to the beacon.

Future<List<Todo>> loadTodos() async { ... }

Future<List<Todo>> addTodo(Todo newTodo) async {
  await todoService.addTodo(newTodo);
  final currentTodos = todosBeacon.lastData ?? [];
  return [newTodo, ...currentTodos];
}

final todosBeacon = Beacon.future(() => loadTodos());

// Later, add a new todo without refetching all todos
await todosBeacon.updateWith(() => addTodo(newTodo));

// You can also provide an optimistic result
// which will be set immediately while the future is being resolved.
final optimisticTodos = [newTodo, ...todosBeacon.lastData ?? []];
await todosBeacon.updateWith(
  () => addTodo(newTodo),
  optimisticResult: optimisticTodos,
);

• [Feat] Derived Beacons can now access their own value with '.peek()'. The beacon must have a value so a base case is required.

final counter = Beacon.writable(0);

late final ReadableBeacon<int> accumulated;

accumulated = Beacon.derived(() {
    final count = counter.value;

    if (count == 0) {
        return 0; // base case
    }
    return accumulated.peek() + counter.value;
});

• [Fix] Bug that caused some widgets to not rebuild when using go_router et al.
• [Refactor] Minor performance improvements.

• Bug Fix: Flutter edge-case for derivedBeacons. This was fixed before but the current fix is more efficient.

• Stable release

• [Fix] Edge case for Subscriptions

• [Dependency] Updated lite_ref to 0.8.1

• [Feat] Add ValueNotifier.toBeacon() which converts a ValueNotifier to a WritableBeacon. All changes to the notifier are reflected in the beacon and vice versa.

• [Feat] Add TextEditingBeacon which is a beacon that wraps a TextEditingController. All changes to the controller are reflected in the beacon and vice versa.

  lite_ref (0.7.0):

  • [Breaking] The overrides property of LiteRefScope is now a Set<ScopedRef> instead of a List<ScopedRef>.

• [Fix] Fix bug with FutureBeacons not autosleeping
• [Feat] Expose list of beacons created in a BeaconGroup wuth BeaconGroup.beacons
• [Feat] Add BeaconGroup.onCreate to allow adding a callback to be run when a beacon is created

• [Fix] Rare bug in FutureBeacon when start is called multiple times synchronously.

• [Feat] Add FutureBeacon.idle() to set a beacon to the AsyncIdle state.

• [Feat] Add the ability for widgets to observe beacons synchronously. When synchronous is true, autobatching will be disabled and all updates will be emitted immediately.

  final beacon = Beacon.writable(10);
  beacon.observe(context, (prev, next) {}, synchronous: true);
  

• [Dependency] Updated lite_ref to 0.6.3

• [Refactor] Internal refactor
• [Dependency] Updated lite_ref to 0.6.2

• [Breaking] The beacons getter for Beacon.family has been replaced with entries. This is a breaking change because it returns a MapEntry<Key,Beacon> instead of a Beacon.

• [Dependency] Updated lite_ref to 0.6.1

• [Fix] Update lite_ref dependency and add flutter dependency constraint

• [Fix] Export PeriodicBeacon and BeaconFamily classes

• [Breaking] resetIfError option for toFuture() is now true by default. This was done because there's rarely a case where you'd want it to throw instantly. If you want to keep the previous value, set resetIfError to false.

• [Docs] Update README

• [Feat] Export lite_ref as the recommended dependency injection mechanism for state_beacon. Added convenience methods to ScopedRef for BeaconControllers and Beacons

  class CountController extends BeaconController {
      late final count = B.writable(0);
      late final doubledCount = B.derived(() => count.value * 2);
  }
  
  final countControllerRef = Ref.scoped((ctx) => CountController());
  
  class CounterText extends StatelessWidget {
      const CounterText({super.key});
  
      @override
      Widget build(BuildContext context) {
          // watch the count beacon and return its value
          final count = countControllerRef.select(context, (c) => c.count);
          return Text('$count');
      }
  }
  

• [Refactor] Move BeaconController to state_beacon_core package

• [Feat] Add Beacon.periodic that emits values periodically.

  final myBeacon = Beacon.periodic(Duration(seconds: 1), (i) => i + 1);
  
  final nextFive = await myBeacon.buffer(5).next();
  
  expect(nextFive, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]);
  

• [Breaking] FutureBeacon.toFuture() now returns immediately when it's not in the loading state. This is breaking because in previous versions, it would wait for the next update before returning the value. This was a bug! To get the next state you can use .next().

• [Feat] FutureBeacon.toFuture() now has a resetIfError option that will reset the beacon if the current state is AsyncError.

• [Feat] Add BeaconController for use in Flutter. see docs

• [Feat] Implement Disposable from basic_interfaces package which makes it autodispsable when used with the lite_ref package.

• [Docs] Add section on testing to the README.

• [Feat] Add synchronous option to wrap and chaining methods. This defaults to true which means that wrapper beacons will get all updates.

• [Breaking] Duration is now a positional argument for chaining methods yourBeacon.debounce(), yourBeacon.throttle(), yourBeacon.bufferTime(). This was done to make the code more concise.

  • Old:

  final myBeacon = Beacon.writable(0);
  myBeacon.debounce(duration: k10ms);
  myBeacon.throttle(duration: k10ms);
  myBeacon.bufferTime(duration: k10ms);
  

  • New:

  final myBeacon = Beacon.writable(0);
  myBeacon.debounce(k10ms);
  myBeacon.throttle(k10ms);
  myBeacon.bufferTime(k10ms);
  

• [Deprecation] yourBeacon.stream is now yourBeacon.toStream(). This was done to allow auto-batching configuration. By default, auto-batching is enabled. You can disable it by setting synchronous to true.

  • Old:

  final myBeacon = Beacon.writable(0);
  myBeacon.stream;
  

  • New:

  final myBeacon = Beacon.writable(0);
  myBeacon.toStream();
  

• Minor refactor to improve performance.
• Add BeaconObserver.useLogging() as an alias to BeaconObserver.instance = LoggingObserver().
• Reduce sdk constraint to ^3.0.0 from ^3.1.5

• [Breaking] Beacons will no longer be reset when disposed. It will keep its current value.

• [Breaking] Writing to a disposed beacon will throw an error. Reading will print a warning to the console in debug mode. A beacon should only be disposed if you have no more use for it. If you want to reuse a beacon, use the reset method instead.

  final a = Beacon.writable(10);
  a.dispose();
  a.value = 20; // throws an error
  print(a.value); // prints 10
  

• [Breaking] When a beacon is disposed, all downstream derived beacons and effects will be disposed as well.

  final a = Beacon.writable(10);
  final b = Beacon.writable(10);
  final c = Beacon.derived(() => a.value * b.value);
  
  a.subscribe((_) {});
  
  Beacon.effect(
      () {
      c.value;
      },
      name: 'effect',
  );
  
  //...//
  
  a.dispose();
  
  // "c" is watching "a" so it is disposed
  // the effect is watching "c" so it is disposed
  //
  // a   b
  // |  /
  // | /
  // c
  // |
  // effect
  
  expect(a.isDisposed, true);
  expect(c.isDisposed, true);
  // effect is also disposed
  

• [Feat] Add methods to Beacon.streamRaw that operates on the internal stream: unsubscribe pause and resume.
• [Feat] onDispose now returns a function that can be used to unregister the dispose listener.
• [Breaking] anybeacon.next() no longer takes a timeout parameter. It will also throw an error if called on a lazy beacon and the beacon is disposed before emitting a value; unless a [fallback] value is provided.

Removed Deprecated methods: anybeacon.toStream() is now removed. Use anybeacon.stream instead.

• [Breaking] Remove unsubscribe method from Beacon.streamRaw
• [Fix] Bug when using Flutter scheduler where effects were not running before runApp was called.
• [Refactor] Internal refactor

• [Breaking] Beacon.stream and Beacon.streamRaw will now autosleep when they have no more listeners. This is a breaking change because it changes the default behavior. If you want to keep the old behavior, set shouldSleep to false.

They will unsubscribe from the stream when sleeping and resubscribe when awoken. For Beacon.stream, it will enter the loading state when awoken. It is recommended to use the default when using services like Firebase to prevent cost overruns.

• [Breaking] The filter function is now required when chaining the filtered beacon.

old:

final count = Beacon.writable(10);
final filtered = count.filter(filter: (prev, next) => next.isEven);

new:

final count = Beacon.writable(10);
final filtered = count.filter((prev, next) => next.isEven);

• Internal refactor

• [Feat] Add map to chaining methods

final count = Beacon.writable(10);
final mapped = count.map((value) => value * 2);

expect(mapped.value, 20);

count.value = 20;

expect(count.value, 20);
expect(mapped.value, 40);

final stream = Stream.periodic(k1ms, (i) => i).take(5);
final beacon = stream
        .toRawBeacon(isLazy: true)
        .filter((_, n) => n.isEven)
        .map((v) => v + 1)
        .throttle(duration: k1ms);

await expectLater(beacon.stream, emitsInOrder([1, 3, 5]));

See docs for more information.

• [Feat] Expose the list of beacons as a Readable<List<BeaconType>> in the family beacon's cache.

  final myFamily = Beacon.family((int id) => Beacon.writable(0));
  final beacons1 = family(1);
  
  Beacon.effect((){
      print('cache updated: ${myFamily.beacons.value}');
  });
  
  final beacons2 = family(2);
  // prints: cache updated: [beacons1, beacons2]
  

• [Refactor] Internal refactor and minor improvement in performance

• [Breaking] Beacon.stream and Beacon.streamRaw now takes a function that returns a stream instead of a stream directly. The upside of this change is that they are now derived beacons. All beacons accessed in the function will be tracked as dependencies. This means that if one of their dependencies changes, it will unsubscribe from the old stream and subscribe to the new one. This is a breaking change because it changes the signature of the method.

• [Feat] Use can now manually start a stream beacon. It will start in the idle state when manualStart is true.

• [Deprecated] Beacon.derivedStream is now deprecated. Use Beacon.streaRaw instead.

• [Deprecated] Beacon.derivedFuture is now deprecated. Use Beacon.future instead.

• [Deprecated] Beacon.batch is now deprecated. Batching is automatic with the new core.

• [Breaking] cancelRunning is now removed from FutureBeacon. It is now the default behavior.

New Core:

This is a major update with many breaking changes. The core of state_beacon was rewritten from scratch to be more efficient and to support more use-cases.

Pros:

• Automatic batching
• Asynchronous by default
• Better performance for deep dependency trees/circular dependencies
• Scheduler customization A scheduler is just a function that decides when to run all queued effects(flushing). By default, flushing is done with a microtask from DARTVM. This can be customized depending on your use case. For example, the flutter package ships with a scheduler that uses flutter's SchedulerBinding to handle flushing; as well as a 60fps scheduler that limits flushing to 60 times per second. Here is how you'd use them

BeaconScheduler.useFlutterScheduler();
BeaconScheduler.use60fpsScheduler();

For flutter apps, it's recommended to use the flutter scheduler. The method must be called in the main function of your app.

void main() {
 BeaconScheduler.useFlutterScheduler();

 runApp(const MyApp());
}

Cons:

• Default asynchrony introduces an inconvenience with testing. Effects are queued and the scheduler decides when to flush the queue. This is ideal for apps but makes testing harder because you have to manually flush the effect queue after updating a beacon to run all effects that depends on it. This can be done by calling BeaconScheduler.flush() after updating the beacon.

[!NOTE]
This only applies to pure dart tests. In widgets tests, calling tester.pumpAndSettle() will flush the queue.

final a = Beacon.writable(10);
var called = 0;

// effect is queued for execution. The scheduler decides when to run the effect
Beacon.effect(() {
      print("current value: ${a.value}");
      called++;
});

// manually flush the queue to run the all effect immediately
BeaconScheduler.flush();

expect(called, 1);

a.value = 20; // effect will be queued again.

BeaconScheduler.flush();

expect(called, 2);

• [Fix] Add bug fix from 0.34.0 to flutter package

• [Fix] Bug with auto sleeping derivedFuture beacons

• [Fix] Concurrent modification error when notifying listeners.

• Allow a duration to be null in ThrottledBeacon and DebouncedBeacon to disable the throttle/debouncing. This makes them easier to test.

• [Feat] Add Beacon.derivedStream

Specialized DerivedBeacon that subscribes to the stream returned from its callback and updates its value based on the emitted values. When a dependency changes, the beacon will unsubscribe from the old stream and subscribe to the new one.

Example:

final userID = Beacon.writable<int>(18235);
final profileBeacon = Beacon.derivedStream(() {
 return getProfileStreamFromUID(userID.value);
});

• [Fix] All delegated writes will be forced to account for the fact that rollback isn't possible.

• [Feat] Chaining beacons is now supported. When the beacon returned from a chain is mutated, the mutation is re-routed to the first beacon in the chain.

final query = Beacon.writable('');

const k500ms = Duration(milliseconds: 500);

final debouncedQuery = query
        .filter((prev, next) => next.length > 2)
        .debounce(duration: k500ms);

When debouncedQuery is mutated, the mutation is re-routed to query, then filter and finally debounce.

NB: Buffered beacons cannot be mid-chain. If they are used, they must be the last beacon in the chain.

// GOOD
someBeacon.filter().buffer(10);

// BAD
someBeacon.buffer(10).filter();

• Allow initialValue to be passed to ingest method

• [Feat] Any writable can now wrap a stream with the new .ingest() method.

  final myBeacon = Beacon.writable(0);
  myBeacon.ingest(anyStream);
  

• [Feat] RawStreamBeacons can now be initialized lazily by setting the isLazy option to true.

• [Feat] Add .stream getter for all beacons

• [Deprecation] toStream() is now deprecated. Use .stream instead.

  // before
  final myBeacon = Beacon.writable(0);
  final myStream = myBeacon.toStream();
  
  // after
  final myBeacon = Beacon.writable(0);
  final myStream = myBeacon.stream;
  

• [Fix] mirror force option of wrapped beacons.

• [Breaking] Derived and DerivedFuture beacons will now enter a sleep state when a widget/effect watching it is unmounted/disposed.

  Currently derived & derivedFuture beacons always execute even if it has no listeners. It will now enter a sleep state when nothing is watching it.

  Pro: No unneeded computation so it saves battery life. Con: It will not have the latest state when a widget starts watching it again so it will be in the loading state when woken up.

  It is configurable with a shouldSleep option which defaults to true.

  NB: It still start eagerly, the above only kicks in when listeners decrease from 1 to 0. If you want a lazy start, just declare it as a late variable.

  // with late keyword, someFuture won't run until stats is used.
  late final stats = Beacon.derivedFuture(() async => someFuture());