I have been learning flutter for 2-3 months now and I feel I have a reached a fundamental roadblock with understanding state management. This post will be long unfortunately so please bare with me and I hope I put the right detail.
Problem Definition I have a list of widgets in a shopping cart,im at the point where I click minus and it only has 1 left the widget must be removed.No matter what I try I cant get that widget to be removed. If I click back button and go back into cart the Item will not appear anymore.
I have considered other methods, like disposing the widget(that didn't seem to work) and I was busy implementing Visibility Show/hide widgets in Flutter programmatically but that doesn't feel like the right way.If my understanding of providers,changeNotifiers,async and future builders,is correct the below method should work and I think its fundamental to my flutter journey to understand why it doesn't work.
Overview:The idea was to use the minus button on CartItemWidget to call a method that updates Json stored on the local device, then repopulate the List cartProdList in ProductProvider which calls notifyListeners() and then should propagate everywhere the provider is used. Now I have used this pattern successfully 5 times now, the only different this time is it will be removing a widget which I haven't done before. But this should work dynamically if the future is based of the same provider right ?
function call order
CartItemWidget.onPressed:()
calls >>>
ProductProvider.cartMinusOne(String id)
calls >>>
ProductProvider.Future<List<Product>> cartProducts()
well here goes the code.I also wouldn't mind comments on things I could be doing better in all areas.
CartWidget
class CartWidget extends StatefulWidget {
@override
_CartWidgetState createState() => _CartWidgetState();
}
class _CartWidgetState extends State<CartWidget> {
var providerOfProd;
ProductProvider cartProdProvider = new ProductProvider();
@override
void initState() {
_productsList = new ProductsList();
super.initState();
providerOfProd = Provider.of<ProductProvider>(context, listen: false).cartProducts();
}
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
........
Column(children: <Widget>[
FutureBuilder(
future: providerOfProd,
builder: (context, snapshot) {
switch (snapshot.connectionState) {
case ConnectionState.waiting:
return Container(
width: 0,
height: 0,
);
case ConnectionState.done:
return ListView.separated(
..............
},
itemBuilder: (context, index) {
return CartItemWidget(
product: cartProdProvider.cartProdList.elementAt(index),
heroTag: 'cart',
quantity: cartProdProvider.cartProdList.elementAt(index).cartqty,
key: UniqueKey(),
);
},
);
.........
CartItemWidget
class CartItemWidget extends StatefulWidget {
CartItemWidget({Key key, this.product, this.heroTag, this.quantity = 1}) : super(key: key);
// ProductProvider cartProd = new ProductProvider();
String heroTag;
Product product;
int quantity;
@override
_CartItemWidgetState createState() => _CartItemWidgetState();
}
class _CartItemWidgetState extends State<CartItemWidget> {
@override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Consumer<ProductProvider>(
builder: (context, productProv, _) => InkWell(
child: Container(
.............
child: Row(
children: <Widget>[
.............
IconButton(
onPressed: () {
setState(() {
productProv.cartMinusOne(widget.product.id);
widget.quantity = this.decrementQuantity(widget.quantity);
});
}
.............
ProductProvider
class ProductProvider with ChangeNotifier {
ProductProvider() {
cartProducts();
}
List<Product> cartProdList;
cartMinusOne(String id) async {
//Code to minus item,then return as a string to save as local jason
var test = jsonEncode(cartList);
saveLocalJson(test, 'cart.json');
cartProducts();
notifyListeners();
}
Future<List<Product>> cartProducts() async {
String jsonString = await JsonProvider().getProductJson();
String cartString = await getCartJson();
var filterProdList = (json.decode(jsonString) as List).map((i) => Product.fromJson(i)).toList();
//code to get match cart list to product list
cartProdList = filterProdList.where((element) => element.cartqty > 0).toList();
notifyListeners();
return cartProdList;
}
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