Flutter: Shared preferences singleton not initializing properly - flutter

Question

I'm very new to Flutter and Dart, comming from android, bringing some of my habbits with me, I want to implement a SharedPreferences singleton object to simplify and avoid repetition (duplication).
this is my SharedPreferences singleton class:
import 'package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart';
import 'package:synchronized/synchronized.dart';
class MySharedPreferences {
static MySharedPreferences _instance;
SharedPreferences _preferences;
// keys
final String _logged = "LOGGED";
final String _accessToken = "ACCESS_TOKEN";
MySharedPreferences._() {
_initSharedPreferences();
}
static MySharedPreferences getInstance() {
var lock = new Lock();
if (_instance == null) {
lock.synchronized(() => {_instance = new MySharedPreferences._()});
return _instance;
} else
return _instance;
}
_initSharedPreferences() async {
_preferences = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
}
bool checkLogged() {
return _preferences.getBool(_logged);
}
void setLogged(bool logged) {
_preferences.setBool(_logged, logged);
}
well most of this logic is what i used to do in android, and used to work perfectly, but when i tried testing it, the singleton is always null, here is the test:
import 'package:flutter_test/flutter_test.dart';
import 'package:reportingsystem/local/my_shared_preferences.dart';
void main() {
TestWidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
test('Test the shared_preferences', () {
MySharedPreferences preferences = MySharedPreferences.getInstance();
preferences.setLogged(true);
expect(preferences.checkLogged(), true);
preferences.setLogged(false);
expect(preferences.checkLogged(), false);
});
}
The test fails because the "preferences" object is null, i don't know what wrong, and i don't find much about it in the docs.
here is the stacktrace:
dart:core Object.noSuchMethod
package:reportingsystem/local/my_shared_preferences.dart 34:18 MySharedPreferences.setLogged
test\shared_preferences_test.dart 8:17 main.<fn>
test\shared_preferences_test.dart 6:39 main.<fn>
NoSuchMethodError: The method 'setBool' was called on null.
Receiver: null
Tried calling: setBool("LOGGED", true)

Answer 1

Here's an example where you must call init when first calling the Singleton, and then you'll be able to access it synchronously.
class MySharedPreferences {
static final MySharedPreferences _instance = MySharedPreferences._internal();
MockSharedPreferences prefereces;
factory MySharedPreferences() {
return _instance;
}
Future<void> init() async {
if (prefereces != null) {
return;
}
prefereces = await Future.delayed(Duration(seconds: 1), () => MockSharedPreferences());
}
MySharedPreferences._internal();
}
class MockSharedPreferences {
final Map<String, bool> data = {};
void setBool(String key, bool value) {
data[key] = value;
print('data $data');
}
}
Then you can use it without await after first initialization, like this:
Future<void> main() async {
await first();
anyOther();
}
void anyOther() {
MySharedPreferences singleton = MySharedPreferences();
singleton.prefereces.setBool('first', true);
}
Future<void> first() async {
MySharedPreferences singleton = MySharedPreferences();
await singleton.init();
singleton.prefereces.setBool('notFirst', true);
}