How to perform CRUD operations with Airtable in Flutter?

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I’m developing a Flutter application and need to connect it to Airtable to manage my database entries. I aim to retrieve data from my Airtable base as well as create new records when necessary.

Currently, I’m experimenting with the Airtable package but need clarity on the right approach to implement this. Here’s my current attempt:

import 'package:airtable/airtable.dart';

void getData() async {
  final apiToken = 'your-api-key';
  final baseKey = 'your-base-key';
  final table = 'Tasks';

  var airtableClient = Airtable(apiKey: apiToken, projectBase: baseKey);
  var records = await airtableClient.getAllRecords(table);

  print(records);
}

I’m also uncertain which import statement to use - should I opt for package:airtable/airtable.dart or package:dart_airtable/dart_airtable.dart?

Any assistance regarding the setup and initial read/write functions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Check your pubspec.yaml to see which package you installed. If it’s airtable, use package:airtable/airtable.dart. If it’s dart_airtable, use package:dart_airtable/dart_airtable.dart. I’d wrap your Airtable calls in a service class for better error handling. Your reading approach looks good, but remember Airtable returns records with specific field structures you’ll need to handle. For creating records, you’ll use something like createRecord() with a map of field names to values. Don’t forget to handle network exceptions and check your API token permissions - Airtable has specific read/write scopes that need to be set up in your base settings.

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The import depends on which package you added. From your code, looks like you’re using the airtable package, so package:airtable/airtable.dart is right. Just heads up - you’ll need to handle the response parsing carefully since Airtable returns nested JSON. Make sure you’re extracting field values from the records object properly. For creating records, use createRecord with your field data as a Map. One thing I learned the hard way - implement rate limiting! Airtable caps you at 5 requests per second, which’ll bite you during bulk operations. Also worth caching frequently accessed data locally to cut down on API calls and speed things up.

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i’d recommend dart_airtable instead - it’s more actively maintained. also, make sure you have good error handling for CRUD ops since airtable can be a bit flaky. keep an eye on base permissions to avoid those pesky 403 errors when writing. also, avoid hardcoding your api keys; better to use env variables.