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It does support deserialising into a map, but not a class. One of the selling points of Dart is classes; which can give code-completion, static analysis, etc..

by d2p 12y ago

It does support deserialising into a map, but not a class. One of the selling points of Dart is classes; which can give code-completion, static analysis, etc.. This is all lost if you use maps instead of classes.

sigzero 12y ago
The top comment as well as the answer in the thread explains why.
- d2p 12y ago
  Not really; that comment is incorrect. For example, in C# there's a JavaScriptSerializer.Deserialize<T>(string) method that does just this.