Using the Flutter Entity generator for JHipster

Cyril Casaucau

3 min readJun 30, 2021

In this article we will see how we can use the generator to generate a CRUD based on our JHipster entities.

Four main parts :

Main features
Code organization
Using the generator
How it looks

Main features

The generator will create a CRUD based on the BLoC architecture (More info about this pattern). It will also create :

Routes
I18n fields (If activated)
Keys
Mapper declarations for Serialization / De-serialization
Add menu entries (Drawer)

For now, the generator handles 4 base field types :

String
Datetime
Enum
Boolean

Note : If you have DateTime in your entity, the state can’t be immutable meaning we can’t use the const keyword in the bloc state or in the form model because DateTime value can’t be computed at compile time.

Code organization

All entities code is generated in the entities package. we can divide it in two main parts.

The bloc part : Everything related to the state (events, form model, etc).
The UI part : where we have all the code related to the view (List view, edit view, update view, etc). We also have the repository to communicate with the API and the model.

Using the generator

You have two main ways to use it, you can be in the flutter-app folder in the jhispter project in that case the generator will automatically detect the entities folder, or you can be anywhere but you will have to specify the address of the jhipster project.