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DART Essentials

You're reading from   DART Essentials Design and build full-featured web and CLI apps using the powerful Dart language and its libraries and tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783989607
Length 232 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Dart FREE CHAPTER 2. Practical Dart 3. The Power of HTML5 with Dart 4. Developing a Mobile App with Dart 5. Web Components and polymer.dart 6. AngularDart 7. Server-side Applications with Dart 8. Testing and Profiling the Dart Code 9. Writing Native Extensions for the Standalone Dart VM Index

Writing a native fuzzy search implementation


This is where things start to get interesting. When working with existing C++ code, you'll probably want to work with multiple instances of the same class, but we can't just instantiate a C++ class in Dart. Instead, we'll crate a wrapper class in Dart that stores the memory address of the C++ object. Let's start by creating a C++ class with a native fuzzy search implementation:

// fuzzy_search.hpp
class FuzzySearch {
public:
    FuzzySearch(Dart_Handle inputItems);
    std::vector<char*> search(const char* term);
    size_t size();
private:
    char** items;
    size_t length
};

This is our header file. Header files in C/C++ are commonly used to define interfaces of libraries. In practice, we can use functions and data structures without worrying about their implementation. Previously, we used dart_api.h, which defines, for example, Dart_Handle or Dart_SetReturnValue():

// fuzzy_search.cpp
#include <vector>
#include "fuzzy_search.hpp...
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