In Dart, syntactically nice way to cast dynamic to given type or return null?

Question

I have a dynamic x and I would like to assign x to T s if x is T, and otherwise assign null to s. S

Answer 1

I use the following utility function, which allows for an optional fallback value and error logging.

T tryCast(dynamic x, {T fallback}){
    try{
        return (x as T);
    }
    on CastError catch(e){
        print('CastError when trying to cast $x to $T!');
        return fallback;
    }
}

var x = something();
String s = tryCast(x, fallback: 'nothing');