flutter: State is lost on Hot Reload when using Provider

Question

I am using Provider for managing the state of my app. Here's how I am implementing it.

hypnose.dart

class _HypnoseAppState extends State<HypnoseApp> {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    UserService userService = UserService();
    AudioUtilService audioUtilService = AudioUtilService();

    return MultiProvider(
      providers: [
        ChangeNotifierProvider<UserService>.value(
          value: userService,
        ),
        ChangeNotifierProvider<AudioUtilService>.value(
          value: audioUtilService,
        )
      ],
      child: MaterialApp(
          debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
          title: Globals.title,
          theme: ThemeData(primarySwatch: Colors.cyan),
          darkTheme: ThemeData.dark(),
          initialRoute: '/',
          routes: {
            '/': (BuildContext context) => WelcomeScreen(userService),
            '/home': (BuildContext context) => HomePageSwitcher(),
            '/audiocreate': (BuildContext context) => AudioCreateScreen()
          }),
    );
  }
}

home_switcher.dart

class HomePageSwitcher extends StatelessWidget {
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Consumer<UserService>(
      builder: (BuildContext context, UserService userService, Widget child) {
        return Scaffold(
            appBar: AppBar(),
            drawer: Drawer(
              child: Column(
                children: <Widget>[
                  UserAccountsDrawerHeader(
                    accountEmail: Text(userService.loggedInUser.email),
                    accountName: Text(userService.loggedInUser.name),
                    currentAccountPicture:
                        Image.network(userService.loggedInUser.avatar),
                  )
                ],
              ),
            ),
            body: Center(
              child: RaisedButton(
                child: Text('Sign out'),
                onPressed: () async {
                  await userService.signOut();
                  Navigator.pushNamed(context, '/');
                },
              ),
            ));
      },
    );
  }
}

user_service.dart

class UserService extends ChangeNotifier {
  // Get auth instances
  final GoogleSignIn _googleSignIn = GoogleSignIn();
  final FirebaseAuth _auth = FirebaseAuth.instance;

  // Store reference of user collection
  final CollectionReference userDb = Firestore.instance.collection('user');

  // Master instance of logged in user
  User _loggedInUser;

  // Getter to access loggedInUser
  User get loggedInUser {
    return _loggedInUser;
  }

  PublishSubject<AuthState> _authStateSubject = PublishSubject();

.... other code

Now the problem here is that every time I hot reload, on the home page, I start to get the NoSuchMethodError as it says that properties like email, name etc. were called on null, which I think means that the state is lost. How can I overcome the same? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You should not use ChangeNotifierProvider.value. Instead use the default constructor:

ChangeNotifierProvider(
  builder: (_) => UserService(),
)

Otherwise, your build method is impure and you'll have issues like described in How to deal with unwanted widget build?