How to add key value-pair to a Object?

Question

I want to update my Object by adding a more key-value pair.

Object options = {
  "first_name": "Nitish",
  "last_name" : "Singh"
}

after initializing the Object I want to add one more key and value. Is there any way to do this.

after adding one more key-value pair my object will look like this

options = {
  "first_name" : "Nitish",
  "last_name"  : "Singh"
  "middle_name": "Kumar"
}

Solution

You can assign to a Map using the indexing operator

options['middle_name'] = 'Kumar';

{} is a Map literal to create a Map instance. The result allows you to use all methods of Map like remove

Comments

[nitishk72]

I got this error : The operator '[]=' isn't defined for the class 'Object'

[Günter Zöchbauer]

That's an analyzer warning. Use var or final instead of Object to have the type inferred or use Map or Map<String,String> to specify a concrete type yourself. See also my updated answer.

[Ganymede]

If you don't want to overwrite a value if the key already exists, then there is also map.putIfAbsent(key, () => valueIfAbsent);