Provider dont update a data in Flutter - flutter

Question

I'm create a project on Flutter. And I'm using a provider to change screens in my app.
Here is my main.dart file:
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
import 'package:school_app/services/auth_service.dart';
import 'package:school_app/wrapper.dart';
void main() async {
WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
runApp(MyApp());
}
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return ChangeNotifierProvider(
create: (_) => AuthService().auth,
child: MaterialApp(
home: Wrapper(),
),
);
}
}
Also this is my wrapper.dart file where the screens choose:
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
import 'package:school_app/screens/authenticate/auth.dart';
import 'package:school_app/models/user.dart';
import 'package:school_app/screens/school/home.dart';
import 'package:school_app/services/auth_service.dart';
class Wrapper extends StatelessWidget {
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
final user = Provider.of<AuthProvider>(context);
print(user.auth);
if(!user.auth) return Auth();
return Home();
}
}
And it is my AuthProvider class:
import 'package:dio/dio.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
import 'package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart';
class AuthService {
/* AuthUser _user(User user) {
return user != null ? AuthUser(uid: user.uid) : null;
}*/
AuthProvider auth = new AuthProvider();
//sign in
Future signIn(String username, String password) async {
try {
SharedPreferences prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
var dio = Dio();
Response user = await dio.post('url', data: {
'username': username,
'password': password
});
if(user.data['success'] == false) return user.data['msg'];
await prefs.setString('token', user.data['token']);
auth.setAuth(true);
print("SUCCESS");
} catch(e) {
print('Error ' + e.toString());
}
}
}
class AuthProvider with ChangeNotifier {
bool _auth;
AuthProvider() {
_auth = false;
}
bool get auth => _auth;
void setAuth(bool auth) {
_auth = auth;
notifyListeners();
}
}
And when I call a function in AuthProvider class setAuth, nothing changed. Can you help me and find my mistake?
EDIT
I'm making all changes that you writes but it is not working. Here is my main.dart:
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
import 'package:school_app/services/auth_service.dart';
import 'package:school_app/wrapper.dart';
void main() async {
WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
runApp(MyApp());
}
class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return ChangeNotifierProvider(
create: (_) => AuthProvider(),
child: MaterialApp(
home: Wrapper(),
),
);
}
}
Also wrapper.dart:
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
import 'package:school_app/screens/authenticate/auth.dart';
import 'package:school_app/screens/school/home.dart';
import 'package:school_app/services/auth_service.dart';
class Wrapper extends StatefulWidget {
#override
_WrapperState createState() => _WrapperState();
}
class _WrapperState extends State<Wrapper> {
#override
void initState() {
// TODO: implement initState
super.initState();
AuthService().auth;
}
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Consumer<AuthProvider>(builder: (context, authProvider, child) {
print(authProvider.auth);
if (!authProvider.auth) {
return Auth();
} else {
return Home();
}
});
}
}
And AuthService and AuthProvider classes:
import 'package:dio/dio.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:provider/provider.dart';
import 'package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart';
class AuthService {
/* AuthUser _user(User user) {
return user != null ? AuthUser(uid: user.uid) : null;
}*/
AuthProvider auth = new AuthProvider();
//sign in
Future signIn(String username, String password) async {
try {
SharedPreferences prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
var dio = Dio();
Response user = await dio.post('url', data: {
'username': username,
'password': password
});
if(user.data['success'] == false) return user.data['msg'];
await prefs.setString('token', user.data['token']);
auth.setAuth(true);
print("SUCCESS");
} catch(e) {
print('Error ' + e.toString());
}
}
}
class AuthProvider with ChangeNotifier {
bool _auth;
AuthProvider() {
_auth = false;
}
bool get auth => _auth;
void setAuth(bool auth) {
_auth = auth;
notifyListeners();
}
}
Notice, that here two classes and in AuthService I'm calling function .setAuth(true).

Answer 1

In your current implementation of Wrapper, you are rendering the widget once and not listening to whether the values changed. You could use Consumer as suggested above. You could also choose to watch the value for changes - like this:
class Wrapper extends StatelessWidget {
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
final user = context.watch<AuthProvider>();
print(user.auth);
if(!user.auth) return Auth();
return Home();
}
}
When you use a watch or Consumer pattern, the widget will be rendered when the values of the underlying store (which is AuthProvider here) gets changed.

Answer 2

The only missing part here is that you never Consume the AuthProvider to listen to the notifyListeners() trigger.
The correct implementation looks like the following (I didn't try it, you may have to correct some typo errors, but you'll get the idea !)
class Wrapper extends StatelessWidget {
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return Consumer<AuthProvider>(
builder: (context, authProvider, child) {
if (!authProvider.auth) {
return Auth();
} else {
return Home();
}
}
);
}
}
EDIT
I didn't notice you weren't injecting the right Class in your ChangeNotifierProvider. You'll also have to update your widget MyApp
#override
Widget build(BuildContext context) {
return ChangeNotifierProvider(
create: (_) => AuthProvider(),
child: MaterialApp(
home: Wrapper(),
),
);
}
And in this case you probably should transform your Wrapper widget to a Stateful widget, and in the initState method you should call AuthService().auth.
I strongly recommend you to read the official documentation of Provider, looks like things aren't crystal clear yet in your mind
EDIT 2
You're still missing the point of the Provider library.
The goal of this lib is to provide an instance of a class to your widget tree so you don't have to re-create an instance in each widget.
Here, in AuthService class you're re-creating a AuthProvider with AuthProvider auth = new AuthProvider(); instead of referring to the existing instance created in the parent Widget.
To refer to a previously created instance, you should use Provider.of<AuthProvider>(context); in the AuthService class, or, even better, pass the instance of AuthProvider as a parameter in the signIn method.