# auto_route_library
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## README
--- **for more docs with examples** https://autoroute.vercel.app
- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Setup and Usage](#setup-and-usage)
- [Generated routes](#generated-routes)
- [Navigation](#navigating-between-screens)
- [Navigating Between Screens](#navigating-between-screens)
- [Passing Arguments](#passing-arguments)
- [Returning Results](#returning-results)
- [Nested navigation](#nested-navigation)
- [Tab Navigation](#tab-navigation)
- [Finding The Right Router](#finding-the-right-router)
- [Navigating Without Context](#navigating-without-context)
- [Declarative Navigation](#declarative-navigation)
- [Working with Paths](#working-with-paths)
- [Route guards](#route-guards)
- [Wrapping routes](#wrapping-routes)
- [Navigation Observers](#navigation-observers)
- [Customization](#customizations)
- [Custom Route Transitions](#custom-route-transitions)
- [Custom Route Builder](#custom-route-builder)
- [Examples](#examples)
## Introduction
#### What is AutoRoute?
It’s a Flutter navigation package, it allows for strongly-typed arguments passing, effortless deep-linking and it uses code generation to simplify routes setup, with that being said it requires a minimal amount of code to generate everything needed for navigation inside of your App.
#### Why AutoRoute?
If your App requires deep-linking or guarded routes or just a clean routing setup you'll need to use named/generated routes and you’ll end up writing a lot of boilerplate code for mediator argument classes, checking for required arguments, extracting arguments and a bunch of other stuff. AutoRoute does all that for you and much more.
## Installation
```yaml
dependencies:
auto_route: [latest-version]
dev_dependencies:
auto_route_generator: [latest-version]
build_runner:
```
## Setup And Usage
Create a placeholder class and annotate it with `@MaterialAutoRouter` which takes a list of routes as a required argument.
**Note**: Unless you want to generate a part of file (.gr.dart) The name of the router must be prefixed with **\$** so we have a generated class with the same name minus the **$**.
```dart
// @CupertinoAutoRouter
// @AdaptiveAutoRouter
// @CustomAutoRouter
@MaterialAutoRouter(
replaceInRouteName: 'Page,Route',
routes: [
AutoRoute(page: BookListPage, initial: true),
AutoRoute(page: BookDetailsPage),
],
)
class $AppRouter {}
```
### Using part builder ( New in version 3.0.0+)
To generate a part-of file instead of a stand alone `AppRouter` class, simply add a `Part Directive` to your `AppRouter` and extend the generated private router.
```dart
part 'app_router.gr.dart'
@MaterialAutoRouter(
replaceInRouteName: 'Page,Route',
routes: [
AutoRoute(page: BookListPage, initial: true),
AutoRoute(page: BookDetailsPage),
],
)
// extend the generated private router
class AppRouter extends _$AppRouter{}
```
*Tip: You can Shorten auto-generated route names from e.g. **BookListPageRoute** to **BookListRoute** using the replaceInRouteName argument.*
#### Now simply run the generator
Use the [watch] flag to watch the files' system for edits and rebuild as necessary.
```terminal
flutter packages pub run build_runner watch
```
if you want the generator to run one time and exits use
```terminal
flutter packages pub run build_runner build
```
#### Finalize the setup
after you run the generator your router class will be generated, hook it up with MaterialApp.
```dart
// assuing this is the root widget of your App
class App extends StatelessWidget {
// make sure you don't initiate your router
// inside of the build function.
final _appRouter = AppRouter();
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context){
return MaterialApp.router(
routerDelegate: _appRouter.delegate(),
routeInformationParser: _appRouter.defaultRouteParser(),
);
}
}
```
## Generated Routes
A `PageRouteInfo` object will be generated for every declared AutoRoute, These objects hold path information plus strongly-typed page arguments which are extracted from the page's default constructor. Think of them as string path segments on steroid.
```dart
class BookListRoute extends PageRouteInfo {
const BookListRoute() : super(name, path: '/books');
static const String name = 'BookListRoute';
}
```
if the declared route has children AutoRoute will add a children parameter to its constructor to be used in nested navigation. more on that here.
```dart
class UserRoute extends PageRouteInfo {
UserRoute({List children}) :
super(
name,
path: '/user/:id',
initialChildren: children);
static const String name = 'UserRoute';
}
```
## Navigating Between Screens
`AutoRouter` offers the same known push, pop and friends methods to manipulate the pages stack using both the generated `PageRouteInfo` objects and paths.
```dart
// get the scoped router by calling
AutoRouter.of(context)
// or using the extension
context.router
// adds a new entry to the pages stack
router.push(const BooksListRoute())
// or by using using paths
router.pushNamed('/books')
// removes last entry in stack and pushs provided route
// if last entry == provided route page will just be updated
router.replace(const BooksListRoute())
// or by using using paths
router.replaceNamed('/books')
// pops until provided route, if it already exists in stack
// else adds it to the stack (good for web Apps).
router.navigate(const BooksListRoute())
// or by using using paths
router.navigateNamed('/books')
// on Web it calls window.history.back();
// on Native it navigates you back
// to the previous location
router.navigateBack();
// adds a list of routes to the pages stack at once
router.pushAll([
BooksListRoute(),
BookDetailsRoute(id:1),
]);
// This's like providing a completely new stack as it rebuilds the stack
// with the list of passed routes
// entires might just update if alright exist
router.replaceAll([
LoginRoute()
]);
// pops the last page unless stack has 1 entry
context.router.pop();
// keeps poping routes until predicate is satisfied
context.router.popUntil((route) => route.name == 'HomeRoute');
// a simplifed version of the above line
context.router.popUntilRouteWithName('HomeRoute');
// pops all routes down to the root
context.router.popUntilRoot();
// removes the top most page in stack even if it's the last
// remove != pop, it doesn't respect WillPopScopes it just
// removes the entry.
context.router.removeLast();
// removes any route in stack that satisfis the predicate
// this works exactly like removing items from a regualar List
// [...].removeWhere((r)=>)
context.router.removeWhere((route) => );
// you can also use the common helper methods from context extension to navigate
context.pushRoute(const BooksListRoute());
context.replaceRoute(const BooksListRoute());
context.navigateTo(const BooksListRoute());
context.navigateNamedTo('/books');
context.navigateBack();
context.popRoute();
```
## Passing Arguments
That's the fun part! **AutoRoute** automatically detects and handles your page arguments for you, the generated route object will deliver all the arguments your page needs including path/query params.
e.g. The following page widget will take an argument of type `Book`.
```dart
class BookDetailsPage extends StatelessWidget {
const BookDetailsRoute({required this.book});
final Book book;
...
```
**Note:** Default values are respected. Required fields are also respected and handled properly.
The generated `BookDetailsRoute` will deliver the same arguments to it's corresponding page.
```drt
router.push(BookDetailsRoute(book: book));
```
**Note:** all args are generated as named parameters regardless of their original type.
## Returning Results
You can return results by either using the pop completer or by passing a callback function as an argument the same way you'd pass an object.
1 - Using the pop completer
```dart
var result = await router.push(LoginRoute());
```
then inside of your `LoginPage` pop with results
```dart
router.pop(true);
```
as you'd notice we did not specify the result type, we're playing with dynamic values here, which can be risky and I personally don't recommend it.
To avoid working with dynamic values we specify what type of results we expect our page to return, which is a `bool` value.
```dart
AutoRoute(page: LoginPage),
```
we push and specify the type of results we're expecting
```dart
var result = await router.push(LoginRoute());
```
and of course we pop with the same type
```dart
router.pop(true);
```
2- Passing a callback function as an argument.
We only have to add a callback function as a parameter to our page constructor like follows:
```dart
class BookDetailsPage extends StatelessWidget {
const BookDetailsRoute({this.book, required this.onRateBook});
final Book book;
final void Function(int) onRateBook;
...
```
The generated `BookDetailsRoute` will deliver the same arguments to it's corresponding page.
```dart
context.router.push(
BookDetailsRoute(
book: book,
onRateBook: (rating) {
// handle result
}),
);
```
if you're finishing with results make sure you call the callback function as you pop the page
```dart
onRateBook(RESULT);
context.router.pop();
```
**Note:** Default values are respected. Required fields are also respected and handled properly.
## Nested Navigation
Nested navigation means building an inner router inside of a page of another router, for example in the below diagram users page is built inside of dashboard page.
defining nested routes is as easy as populating the children field of the parent route. In the following example `UsersPage` , `PostsPage` and `SettingsPage` are nested children of `DashboardPage`.
```dart
@MaterialAutoRouter(
replaceInRouteName: 'Page,Route',
routes: [
AutoRoute(
path: '/dashboard',
page: DashboardPage,
children: [
AutoRoute(path: 'users', page: UsersPage),
AutoRoute(path: 'posts', page: PostsPage),
AutoRoute(path: 'settings', page: SettingsPage),
],
),
AutoRoute(path: '/login', page: LoginPage)
],
)
class $AppRouter {}
```
To render/build nested routes we need an `AutoRouter` widget that works as an outlet or a nested router-view inside of our dashboard page.
```dart
class DashboardPage extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Row(
children: [
Column(
children: [
NavLink(label: 'Users', destination: const UsersRoute()),
NavLink(label: 'Posts', destination: const PostsRoute()),
NavLink(label: 'Settings', destination: const SettingsRoute()),
],
),
Expanded(
// nested routes will be rendered here
child: AutoRouter(),
)
],
);
}
}
```
Now if we navigate to `/dashboard/users` we will be taken to the `DashboardPage` and the `UsersPage` will be shown inside of it.
What if want to show one of the child pages at `/dashboard`? we can simply do that by giving the child routes an empty path `''` or set it as initial.
```dart
AutoRoute(
path: '/dashboard',
page: UserPage,
children: [
AutoRoute(path: '', page: UsersPage),
//The same thing can be done using the initial flag
//AutoRoute(page: UsersPage,initial: true),
AutoRoute(path: 'posts', page: PostsPage),
],
),
```
or by using a `RedirectRoute`
```dart
AutoRoute(
path: '/dashboard',
page: UserPage,
children: [
RedirectRoute(path: '', redirectTo: 'users'),
AutoRoute(path: 'users', page: UsersPage),
AutoRoute(path: 'posts', page: PostsPage),
],
),
```
which can be simplified to the following where `auto_route` generates the redirect code for you.
```dart
AutoRoute(
path: '/dashboard',
page: UserPage,
children: [
// RedirectRoute(path: '', redirectTo: 'users'),
AutoRoute(path: 'users', page: UsersPage, initial: true),
AutoRoute(path: 'posts', page: PostsPage),
],
),
```
### Things to keep in mind when implementing nested navigation
1- Each router manages it's own pages stack.
2- Navigation actions like push, pop and friends are handled by the topmost router and bubble up if it couldn't be handled.
## Tab Navigation
If you're working with flutter mobile you're most likely to implement tabs navigation, that's why `auto_route` makes tabs navigation as easy and straightforward as possible.
in the previous example we used an `AutoRouter` widget to render nested child routes, `AutoRouter` is just a shortcut for `AutoStackRouter`, `StackRouters` manage a stack of pages inside of them where the active/visible page is always the one on top and you'd need to pop it to see the page beneath it.
Now we can try to implement our tabs using an `AutoRouter` (StackRouter) by pushing or replacing a nested route every-time the tab changes and that might work but our tabs state will be lost, not to mention the transition between tabs issues, luckily auto_route comes equipped with an `AutoTabsRouter` which is especially made to handle tab navigation.
`AutoTabsRouter` lets you switch between different routes while preserving offstage-routes state, tab routes are lazily loaded by default ( can be disabled ) and finally it allows to create whatever transition animation you want.
Let's change the previous example to use tab navigation.
Notice that we're not going to change anything in our routes declaration map, we still have a dashboard page that has tree nested children, users, posts and settings.
```dart
class DashboardPage extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return AutoTabsRouter(
// list of your tab routes
// routes used here must be declaraed as children
// routes of /dashboard
routes: const [
UsersRoute(),
PostsRoute(),
SettingsRoute(),
],
builder: (context, child, animation) {
// obtain the scoped TabsRouter controller using context
final tabsRouter = AutoTabsRouter.of(context);
// Here we're building our Scaffold inside of AutoTabsRouter
// to access the tabsRouter controller provided in this context
//
//alterntivly you could use a global key
return Scaffold(
body: FadeTransition(
opacity: animation,
// the passed child is techinaclly our animated selected-tab page
child: child,
),
bottomNavigationBar: BottomNavigationBar(
currentIndex: tabsRouter.activeIndex,
onTap: (index) {
// here we switch between tabs
tabsRouter.setActiveIndex(index);
},
items: [
BottomNavigationBarItem(label: 'Users',...),
BottomNavigationBarItem(label: 'Posts',...),
BottomNavigationBarItem(label: 'Settings',...),
],
));
},
);
}
}
```
if you think the above setup is a bit messy you could use the shipped-in `AutoTabsScaffold` that makes things much cleaner.
```dart
class DashboardPage extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(context) {
@override
Widget build(context) {
return AutoTabsScaffold(
routes: const [
UsersRoute(),
PostsRoute(),
SettingsRoute(),
],
bottomNavigationBuilder: (_,tabsRouter) {
return BottomNavigationBar(
currentIndex: tabsRouter.activeIndex,
onTap: tabsRouter.setActiveIndex
items: [
BottomNavigationBarItem(label: 'Users',...),
BottomNavigationBarItem(label: 'Posts',...),
BottomNavigationBarItem(label: 'Settings',...),
],
)),
}
);
}
```
## Finding The Right Router
Every nested `AutoRouter` has its own routing controller to manage the stack inside of it and the easiest way to obtain a scoped controller is by using context.
In the previous example `DashboardPage` is a root level stack entry so calling `AutoRouter.of(context)` anywhere inside of it will get us the root routing controller.
`AutoRouter` widgets that are used to render nested routes, insert a new router scope into the widgets tree, so when a nested route calls for the scoped controller they will get the closest parent controller in the widgets tree not the root controller.
```dart
class Dashboard extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
// this will get us the root routing controller
AutoRouter.of(context);
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(title: Text('Dashboard page')),
// this inserts a new router scope into the widgets tree
body: AutoRouter()
);
}
}
```
Here's a simple diagram to help visualize this
As you can tell from the above diagram it's possible to access parent routing controllers by calling `router.parent()`, we're using a generic function because we have too different routing controllers `StackRouter` and `TabsRouter`, one of them could be the parent controller of the current router and that's why we need to specify a type.
```dart
router.parent() // this returns the parent router as a Stack Routing controller
router.parent() // this returns athe parent router as a Tabs Routing controller
```
on the other hand obtaining the root controller does not require type casting because it's always a `StackRouter`.
```dart
router.root // this returns the root router as a Stack Routing controller
```
You can obtain access to inner-routers from outside their scope using a global key
```dart
class DashboardPage extends StatefulWidget {
@override
_DashboardPageState createState() => _DashboardPageState();
}
class _DashboardPageState extends State {
final _innerRouterKey = GlobalKey();
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Row(
children: [
Column(
children: [
NavLink(label: 'Users',
onTap:(){
final router = _innerRouterKey.currentState?.controller;
router?.push(const UsersRoute());
}
),
...
],
),
Expanded(
child: AutoRouter(key: _innerRouterKey),
)
],
);
}
}
```
You could also obtain access to inner-routers from outside their scope without a global key as long as they're initiated.
```dart
// assuming this's the root router
context.innerRouterOf(UserRoute.name)
// or if we're usign an AutoTabsRouter inside of DashboardPage
context.innerRouterOf(UserRoute.name)
```
Accessing the `DashboardPage` inner router from the previous example.
```dart
class Dashboard extends StatelessWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Scaffold(
appBar: AppBar(
title: Text('Dashboard'),
actions: [
IconButton(
icon: Icon(Icons.person),
onPressed: () {
// accessing the inner router from
// outside the scope
final router = context.innerRouterOf(DashboardRoute.name)
router?.push(const UsersRoute());
},
),
],
),
body: AutoRouter(), // we're trying to get access to this
);
}
}
```
## Navigating Without Context
To navigate without context you can simply assign your generated router to a global variable
```dart
// declarate your route as a global vairable
final appRouter = AppRouter();
class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return MaterialApp.router(
routerDelegate: AutoRouterDelegate(appRouter),
routeInformationParser: appRouter.defaultRouteParser(),
);
}
```
**Note:** using global variable is not recommended and is considered a bad practice and most of the times you should use dependency injection instead.
Here's an example using `get_it` which is just a personal favorite, you can use any dependency injection package you like.
```dart
void main(){
// make sure you register it as a Singleton or a lazySingleton
getIt.registerSingleton(AppRouter());
runApp(MyApp());
}
class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
final router = getIt();
return MaterialApp.router(
routerDelegate: AutoRouterDelegate(router),
routeInformationParser: router.defaultRouteParser(),
);
}
```
now you can access to your router anywhere inside of your App without using context.
```dart
getIt().push(...);
```
**Note:** navigating without context is not recommended in nested navigation.
## Working with Paths
Working with paths in **AutoRoute** is optional because `PageRouteInfo` objects are matched by name unless pushed as a string using the `initialDeepLink` property in root delegate or `pushNamed`, `replaceNamed` `navigateNamed` methods.
if you don’t specify a path it’s going to be generated from the page name e.g. `BookListPage` will have ‘book-list-page’ as a path, if initial arg is set to true the path will be `/` unless it's relative then it will be an empty string `''`.
When developing a web Application or a native App that requires deep-linking you'd probably need to define paths with clear memorable names, and that's done using the `path` argument in `AutoRoute`.
```dart
AutoRoute(path: '/books', page: BookListPage),
```
### Path Parameters (dynamic segments)
You can define a dynamic segment by prefixing it with a colon
```dart
AutoRoute(path: '/books/:id', page: BookDetailsPage),
```
The simplest way to extract path parameters from path and gain access to them is by annotating constructor params with `@PathParam('optional-alias')` with the same alias/name of the segment.
```dart
class BookDetailsPage extends StatelessWidget {
const BookDetailsPage({@PathParam('id') this.bookId});
final int bookId;
...
```
Now writing `/books/1` in the browser will navigate you to `BookDetailsPage` and automatically extract the `bookId` argument from path and inject it to your widget.
### Query Parameters
Query parameters are accessed the same way, simply annotate the constructor parameter to hold the value of the query param with `@QueryParam('optional-alias')` and let AutoRoute do the rest.
you could also access path/query parameters using the scoped `RouteData` object.
```dart
RouteData.of(context).pathParams;
// or using the extension
context.routeData.queryParams
```
`Tip`: if your parameter name is the same as the path/query parameter, you could use the const `@pathParam` or `@queryParam` and not pass a slug/alias.
```dart
class BookDetailsPage extends StatelessWidget {
const BookDetailsPage({@pathParam this.id});
final int id;
...
```
### Redirecting Paths
Paths can be redirected using `RedirectRoute`. The following setup will navigate us to `/books` when `/` is matched.
```dart
[
RedirectRoute(path: '/', redirectTo: '/books'),
AutoRoute(path: '/books', page: BookListPage),
]
```
When redirecting initial routes the above setup can be simplified by setting the `/books` path as initial and auto_route will automatically generate the required redirect code for you.
```dart
[
AutoRoute(path: '/books', page: BookListPage, initial: true),
]
```
**Note**: `RedirectRoutes` are fully matched.
### Wildcards
auto_route supports wildcard matching to handle invalid or undefined paths.
```dart
AutoRoute(path: '*', page: UnknownRoutePage)
// it could be used with defined prefixes
AutoRoute(path: '/profile/*', page: ProfilePage)
// or it could be used with RedirectRoute
RedirectRoute(path: '*', redirectTo: '/')
```
**Note:** be sure to always add your wildcards at the end of your route list because routes are matched in order.
## Route Guards
Think of route guards as middleware or interceptors, routes can not be added to the stack without going through their assigned guards, guards are useful for restricting access to certain routes.
We create a route guard by extending `AutoRouteGuard` from the auto_route package
and implementing our logic inside of the onNavigation method.
```dart
class AuthGuard extends AutoRouteGuard {
@override
void onNavigation(NavigationResolver resolver, StackRouter router) {
// the navigation is paused until resolver.next() is called with either
// true to resume/continue navigation or false to abort navigation
if(authenitcated){
// if user is authenticated we continue
resolver.next(true);
}else{
// we redirect the user to our login page
router.push(LoginRoute(onResult: (success){
// if success == true the navigation will be resumed
// else it will be aborted
resolver.next(success);
}));
}
}
}
```
**Important**: `resolver.next()` should only be called once.
The `NavigationResolver` object contains the guarded route which you can access by calling the property `resolver.route` and a list of pending routes (if there are any) accessed by calling `resolver.pendingRoutes`.
Now we assign our guard to the routes we want to protect.
```dart
AutoRoute(page: ProfileScreen, guards: [AuthGuard]);
```
After we run code generation, our router will have a required named argument called authGuard or whatever your guard name is
```dart
// we pass our AuthGuard to the generated router.
final _appRouter = AppRouter(authGuard: AuthGuard());
```
## Wrapping Routes
In some cases we want to wrap our screen with a parent widget usually to provide some values through context, e.g wrapping your route with a custom `Theme` or a `Provider`, to do that simply implement `AutoRouteWrapper`, and have wrappedRoute(context) method return (this) as the child of your wrapper widget.
```dart
class ProductsScreen extends StatelessWidget implements AutoRouteWrapper {
@override
Widget wrappedRoute(BuildContext context) {
return Provider(create: (ctx) => ProductsBloc(), child: this);
}
...
```
## Navigation Observers
Navigation observers are used to observe when routes are pushed ,replaced or popped ..etc.
We implement an AutoRouter observer by extending an `AutoRouterObserver` which is just a `NavigatorObserver` with tab route support.
```dart
class MyObserver extends AutoRouterObserver {
@override
void didPush(Route route, Route? previousRoute) {
print('New route pushed: ${route.settings.name}');
}
...
// only override to observer tab routes
@override
void didInitTabRoute(TabPageRoute route, TabPageRoute? previousRoute) {
print('Tab route visited: ${route.name}');
}
@override
void didChangeTabRoute(TabPageRoute route, TabPageRoute previousRoute) {
print('Tab route re-visited: ${route.name}');
}
...
}
```
Then we pass our observer to the root delegate `AutoRouterDelegate`.
**Important** notice that `navigatorObservers` property is a builder function that returns a list of observes and the reason for that is a navigator observer instance can only be used by a single router, so unless you're using a one single router or you don't want your nested routers to inherit observers make sure navigatorObservers builder always returns fresh observer instances.
```dart
return MaterialApp.router(
routerDelegate: AutoRouterDelegate(
_appRouter,
navigatorObservers: () => [MyObserver()],
),
routeInformationParser: _appRouter.defaultRouteParser(),
);
```
the following approach **won't** work if you have nested routers unless they don't inherit the observers.
```dart
final _observer = MyObserver();
return MaterialApp.router(
routerDelegate: AutoRouterDelegate(
_appRouter,
// this should always return new instances
navigatorObservers: () => [_observer],
),
routeInformationParser: _appRouter.defaultRouteParser(),
);
```
Every nested router can have it's own observers and inherit it's parent's.
```dart
AutoRouter(
inheritNavigatorObservers: true, // true by default
navgiatorObservers:()=> [list of observers]);
AutoTabsRouter(
inheritNavigatorObservers: true, // true by default
navgiatorObservers:()=> [list of observers]);
```
We can also make a certain screen route aware by subscribing to an `AutoRouteObserver` ( Route not Router).
First we provide our `AutoRouteObserver` instance
```dart
return MaterialApp.router(
routerDelegate: AutoRouterDelegate(
_appRouter,
// Provide an AutoRouteObserver instance
navigatorObservers: () => [AutoRouteObserver()],
),
routeInformationParser: _appRouter.defaultRouteParser(),
);
```
Next we use an `AutoRouteAware` mixin which is a `RouteAware` mixin with tab support to provided the needed listeners then subscribe to our `AutoRouteObserver`.
```dart
class BooksListPage extends State with AutoRouteAware {
AutoRouteObserver? _observer;
@override
void didChangeDependencies() {
super.didChangeDependencies();
// RouterScope exposes the list of provided observers
// including inherited observers
_observer = RouterScope.of(context).firstObserverOfType();
if (_observer != null) {
// we subscribe to the observer by passing our
// AutoRouteAware state and the scoped routeData
_observer.subscribe(this, context.routeData);
}
}
@override
void dispose() {
super.dispose();
// don't forget to unsubscribe from the
// observer on dispose
_observer.unsubscribe(this);
}
// only override if this is a tab page
@override
void didInitTabRoute(TabPageRoute? previousRoute) {}
// only override if this is a tab page
@override
void didChangeTabRoute(TabPageRoute previousRoute) {}
@override
void didPopNext() {}
@override
void didPushNext() {}
@override
void didPush() {}
@override
void didPop() {}
}
```
## Customizations
##### MaterialAutoRouter | CupertinoAutoRouter | AdaptiveAutoRouter
| Property | Default value | Definition |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| preferRelativeImports [bool] | true | if true relative imports will be used when possible |
| replaceInRouteName [String] | '' | used to replace conventional words in generated route name (whatToReplacePattern,replacement) |
#### CustomAutoRouter
| Property | Default value | Definition |
| ------------------------------- | :-----------: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| customRouteBuilder | null | used to provide a custom route, it takes in BuildContext and a CustomPage and returns a PageRoute |
| transitionsBuilder | null | extension for the transitionsBuilder property in PageRouteBuilder |
| opaque | true | extension for the opaque property in PageRouteBuilder |
| barrierDismissible | false | extension for the barrierDismissible property in PageRouteBuilder |
| durationInMilliseconds | null | extension for the transitionDuration(millieSeconds) property in PageRouteBuilder |
| reverseDurationInMilliseconds | null | extension for the reverseDurationInMilliseconds(millieSeconds) property in PageRouteBuilder |
#### MaterialRoute | CupertinoRoute | AdaptiveRoute | CustomRoute
| Property | Default value | Definition |
| ----------------------- | :-----------: | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| initial | false | sets path to '/' or '' unless path is provided then it generates auto redirect to it. |
| path | null | an auto generated path will be used if not provided|
| name | null | this will be the name of the generated route, if not provided a generated name will be used|
| usePathAsKey | false | if true path is used as page key instead of name|
| fullscreenDialog | false | extension for the fullscreenDialog property in PageRoute |
| maintainState | true | extension for the maintainState property in PageRoute |
| meta | {} | primitive meta data to be passed to the consumed route
#### CupertinoRoute Specific => CupertinoPageRoute
| Property | Default value | Definition |
| -------------- | :-----------: | ------------------------------------------------------ |
| title | null | extension for the title property in CupertinoPageRoute |
#### CustomRoute Specific => PageRouteBuilder
| Property | Default value | Definition |
| ------------------------------- | :-----------: | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| transitionsBuilder | null | extension for the transitionsBuilder property in PageRouteBuilder |
| customRouteBuilder | null | used to provide a custom route, it takes in BuildContext and a CustomPage and returns a PageRoute
| opaque | true | extension for the opaque property in PageRouteBuilder |
| barrierDismissible | false | extension for the barrierDismissible property in PageRouteBuilder |
| durationInMilliseconds | null | extension for the transitionDuration(millieSeconds) property in PageRouteBuilder |
| reverseDurationInMilliseconds | null | extension for the reverseDurationInMilliseconds(millieSeconds) property in PageRouteBuilder |
## Custom Route Transitions
To use custom route transitions use a `CustomRoute` and pass in your preferences.
The `TransitionsBuilder` function needs to be passed as a static/const reference that has the same signature as the `TransitionsBuilder` function of the `PageRouteBuilder` class.
```dart
CustomRoute(
page: LoginScreen,
//TransitionsBuilders class contains a preset of common transitions builders.
transitionsBuilder: TransitionBuilders.slideBottom,
durationInMilliseconds: 400)
```
*Tip* Use **@CustomAutoRouter()** to define global custom route transitions.
You can of course use your own transitionsBuilder function as long as it has the same function signature.
The function has to take in exactly a `BuildContext`, `Animation`, `Animation` and a child `Widget` and it needs to return a `Widget`, typically you would wrap your child with one of flutter's transition widgets as follows.
```dart
Widget zoomInTransition(BuildContext context, Animation animation, Animation secondaryAnimation, Widget child) {
// you get an animation object and a widget
// make your own transition
return ScaleTransition(scale: animation, child: child);
}
```
Now pass the reference of your function to `CustomRoute` .
```dart
CustomRoute(page: ZoomInScreen, transitionsBuilder: zoomInTransition)
```
## Custom Route Builder
You can use your own custom route by passing a `CustomRouteBuilder` function to `CustomRoute`, there isn't a simple way to strongly-type a static function in code generation, so make sure your custom builder signature matches the following.
```dart
typedef CustomRouteBuilder = Route Function(
BuildContext context, Widget child, CustomPage page);
```
Now we implement our builder function the same way we did with the TransitionsBuilder function,
the most important part here is passing the page argument to our custom route.
```dart
Route myCustomRouteBuilder(BuildContext context, Widget child, CustomPage page){
return PageRouteBuilder(
fullscreenDialog: page.fullscreenDialog,
// this is important
settings: page,
pageBuilder: (,__,___) => child);
}
```
We finish by passing a reference of our custom function to our CustomRoute.
```dart
CustomRoute(page: CustomPage, customRouteBuilder: myCustomRouteBuilder)
```
## Examples
coming soon
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