How to sort/order a list by date in dart/flutter?

Question

I have the following list, that I am trying to re-order/ sort by the DateTime.

import 'package:intl/intl.dart'; 
//don't forget to add under dependencies pubspec.yml "intl: ^0.15.8"


List products = [];

//adding into the new list from raw API list
for(final item in rawProducts){

   var parsedDate = DateTime.parse.(item['expiryDate']);
   tmpArray = {
     'id': item['id'],
     'name': item['name'],
     'price': item['price'],
     'expiry': parsedDate
   }
   products.add(tmpArray);
  }
}


List products = [

 {id: 1242, name: milk, price: $5, expiry: 2019-11-25 00:00:00:000},
 {id: 1242, name: egg, price: $2, expiry: 2019-11-22 00:00:00:000},
 {id: 1243, name: bread, price: $3, expiry: 2019-11-22 00:00:00:000},
 {id: 1244, name: butter, price: $7, expiry: 2019-11-24 00:00:00:000},
 {id: 1247, name: butter, price: $7, expiry: 2019-11-23 00:00:00:000},

]

I would like to re-order the list in a way that the farthest expiry date shows up first:

 25-11-2019
 24-11-2019
 23-11-2019
 22-11-2019
 22-11-2019

What I have tried (updated) -> SOLVED by changing a.expiry into a['expiry'] :

  products.sort((a,b) {
    var adate = a['expiry'] //before -> var adate = a.expiry;
     var bdate = b['expiry'] //var bdate = b.expiry;
     return -adate.compareTo(bdate);
  });

on the sort function I am receiving this error (SOLVED by above fix):

Unhandled Exception: NoSuchMethodError: Class 
'_InternalLinkedHashMap<String, dynamic>'has no instance getter 'expiry'.

Answer 1

I fixed it by changing changing a.expiry into a['expiry'] and b.expiry into b['expiry']

products.sort((a,b) {
 var adate = a['expiry'] //before -> var adate = a.expiry;
 var bdate = b['expiry'] //before -> var bdate = b.expiry;
 return adate.compareTo(bdate); //to get the order other way just switch `adate & bdate`
});

Answer 2

convert to DateTime

import 'package:intl/intl.dart';

void main() {
  List products = [
    "2019-11-25 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-22 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-22 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-24 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-23 00:00:00.000"
  ];
  List<DateTime> newProducts = [];
  DateFormat format = DateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

  for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    newProducts.add(format.parse(products[i]));
  }
  newProducts.sort((a,b) => a.compareTo(b));

  for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    print(newProducts[i]);
  }
}

without convert to DateTime

import 'package:intl/intl.dart';

void main() {
  List products = [
    "2019-11-25 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-22 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-22 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-24 00:00:00.000",
    "2019-11-23 00:00:00.000"
  ];

  products.sort((a,b) => a.compareTo(b));

  for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
    print(products[i]);
  }
}

Answer 3

If you have something like:

{
"id": 100,
"timestamp": "2021-02-02T15:15:11Z",
"name": "Entry1"
}

Then do this:

List<Values> _myList = [];
_myList.sort((a,b)=> a["timestamp"].compareTo(b["timestamp"])); 

Or like in my code:

task.sort((a,b) => a.createdAt.compareTo(b.createdAt));

Source

Answer 4

If we get more specific then try like this one.

its worked perfectly for me

transactionList.sort((a, b) {
  int aDate = DateTime.parse(a.dateTime ?? '').microsecondsSinceEpoch;
  int bDate = DateTime.parse(b.dateTime ?? '').microsecondsSinceEpoch;
  return aDate.compareTo(bDate);
});

Answer 5

If you want to sort the objects by a property name without having to use DateTime assuming the date and time is a string, do this:

products.sort((a, b)=> a['expiry'].compareTo(b['expiry']));