Holds opaque meta data in the render tree.

Useful for decorating the render tree with information that will be consumed later. For example, you could store information in the render tree that will be used when the user interacts with the render tree but has no visual impact prior to the interaction.

Inheritance

Constructors

MetaData({Key key, metaData, HitTestBehavior behavior: HitTestBehavior.deferToChild, Widget child })

Creates a widget that hold opaque meta data.

Properties

behavior HitTestBehavior

How to behave during hit testing.

read-only
metaData → dynamic

Opaque meta data ignored by the render tree

read-only
child Widget

The widget below this widget in the tree.

read-only, inherited
hashCode int

Get a hash code for this object.

read-only, inherited
key Key

Controls how one widget replaces another widget in the tree.

read-only, inherited
runtimeType Type

A representation of the runtime type of the object.

read-only, inherited

Operators

operator ==(other) bool

The equality operator.

inherited

Methods

createRenderObject(BuildContext context) RenderMetaData

Creates an instance of the RenderObject class that this RenderObjectWidget represents, using the configuration described by this RenderObjectWidget.

debugFillDescription(List<String> description) → void

Add additional information to the given description for use by toString.

updateRenderObject(BuildContext context, RenderMetaData renderObject) → void

Copies the configuration described by this RenderObjectWidget to the given RenderObject, which will be of the same type as returned by this object's createRenderObject.

createElement() SingleChildRenderObjectElement

RenderObjectWidgets always inflate to a RenderObjectElement subclass.

inherited
didUnmountRenderObject(RenderObject renderObject) → void

A render object previously associated with this widget has been removed from the tree. The given RenderObject will be of the same type as returned by this object's createRenderObject.

inherited
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic

Invoked when a non-existent method or property is accessed.

inherited
toString() String

Returns a string representation of this object.

inherited
toStringShort() String

A short, textual description of this widget.

inherited