Converting object to an encodable object failed

Solution 1:

You don't need to add any libraries. You just have to implement fromJson and toJson functions in your object.

Example:

class LinkItem {
  final String name;
  final String url;

  LinkItem({this.name, this.url});

  LinkItem.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json)
      : name = json['n'],
        url = json['u'];

  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() {
    return {
      'n': name,
      'u': url,
    };
  }
}

Then you can call jsonEncode:

List<LinkItem> list = await getUserLinks();
list.add(linkItem);    
String json = jsonEncode(list);

Result:

  [{"n":"Google","u":"https://www.google.com/"},{"n":"Test","u":"https://www.test.com/"},{"n":"etc","u":"etc"}]

Solution 2:

You can't just convert any arbitrary class instance to JSON.

One option is to provide a custom function to the JsonEncoder() constructor (via the toEncodable argument). This custom function should map your custom objects to types that JsonEncoder already knows how to handle (i.e. numbers, strings, booleans, null, lists and maps with string keys).

https://api.dartlang.org/stable/1.24.3/dart-convert/JsonEncoder-class.html

https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/json_serializable is a package that generates code for that so that you don't need to write it manually.

See also https://flutter.io/json/