Changed view engine to use Map<String, dynamic>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 * Upgraded `package:file` to `5.0.0`.
 * `ResponseContext.sendFile` now uses `package:file`.
 * Abandon `ContentType` in favor of `MediaType`.
+* Changed view engine to use `Map<String, dynamic>`.
 
 # 1.1.5+1
 * Patched annoying error that prevented MapServices from working,

lib/src/core/angel_base.dart

@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 library angel_framework.http.angel_base;
 
 import 'dart:async';
+
 import 'package:angel_container/angel_container.dart';
+
 import 'routable.dart';
 
 /// A function that asynchronously generates a view from the given path and data.
-typedef Future<String> ViewGenerator(String path, [Map data]);
+typedef FutureOr<String> ViewGenerator(String path,
+    [Map<String, dynamic> data]);
 
 /// Base class for Angel servers. Do not bother extending this.
 class AngelBase extends Routable {
-  static ViewGenerator noViewEngineConfigured = (String view, [Map data]) =>
-      new Future<String>.value("No view engine has been configured yet.");
+  static ViewGenerator noViewEngineConfigured =
+      (String view, [Map data]) => 'No view engine has been configured yet.';
 
   Container _container;
 

lib/src/core/response_context.dart

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ abstract class ResponseContext implements StreamSink<List<int>>, StringSink {
   /// A [Map] of data to inject when `res.render` is called.
   ///
   /// This can be used to reduce boilerplate when using templating engines.
-  final Map renderParams = {};
+  final Map<String, dynamic> renderParams = {};
 
   /// Points to the [RequestContext] corresponding to this response.
   RequestContext get correspondingRequest;
@@ -181,10 +181,10 @@ abstract class ResponseContext implements StreamSink<List<int>>, StringSink {
   }
 
   /// Renders a view to the response stream, and closes the response.
-  Future render(String view, [Map data]) {
+  Future render(String view, [Map<String, dynamic> data]) {
     if (!isOpen) throw closed();
     return app
-        .viewGenerator(view, new Map.from(renderParams)..addAll(data ?? {}))
+        .viewGenerator(view, new Map<String, dynamic>.from(renderParams)..addAll(data ?? <String, dynamic>{}))
         .then((content) {
       write(content);
       headers['content-type'] = 'text/html';