Flutter showDialog with navigator key rather than passing context

Question

Currently its very hectic to show dialog from any layer of code in app just because one has to pass context in it. Hence i thought to pass navigatorKey.currentContext (Navigator key is a global key passed to Material app navigatorKey parameter) to show dialog. But i got the error

"Navigator operation requested with a context that does not include a Navigator.The context used to push or pop routes from the Navigator must be that of a widget that is a descendant of a Navigator widget."

The issue is showDialog calls Navigator.of(context) internally and which looks for the navigator ancestor which ofcourse will return null as the navigator is itself the root. Hence it will not find the navigator as ancestor.

Is there a way we can directly pass the navigator state/context to showDialog function to show the dialog? Or is there a more easy way to show Dialog without passing context to it if we want to show it from bloc?

Answer 1

I found a simple solution:

navigatorKey.currentState.overlay.context

I use this in a redux middleware where I keep navigatorKey, and want to show a dialog globally anywhere in the app everytime I dispatch a specific action.