How to use DropDownButton for dynamic list in flutter?-CodePudding

I am trying to implement dynamic dropdownButton in my app where the items of dropdown is going to come from the names of columns in my excel sheet. I am able to show all the columns of excel but I couldn't able to trace the index of column which the user is selecting from the dropdown.

I tried to make a map of dropdownitems like this in which the key is the index and value is the DropdownMenuItem like this :

late int selectedIndex;  //where I want to store the selected index
late String initialDropDownVal;
List<Map<int,DropdownMenuItem<String>>> dropdownItems = [];

Then I added some values by iterating the columns of excel using a for loop :

excel = Excel.decodeBytes(bytes);
sheet = excel['Sheet1'];
for(int i = 1; i< sheet.maxCols;   i){
   var cell = sheet.cell(CellIndex.indexByColumnRow(rowIndex: 0, columnIndex: i));
   String val = cell.value.toString(); 
   if(val=="null"){
        break;
   }else{
      if(i==1){
         initialDropDownVal = val;
      }
      var newItem = DropdownMenuItem(
         child: Text(val),
              value: val,
          );
       dropdownItems.add({i:newItem});
   }

}

But I could not able to map the values in items attribute of DropdownButton, I tried to implement like this but this is throwing error

DropdownButton(
 value: selectedVal,
 icon: const Icon(Icons.keyboard_arrow_down),
 items: dropdownItems.map((int i,DropdownMenuItem<String> p) => p).toList(),
 onChanged: (String? value){
      setState(() {
            initialDropDownVal = value!;
       });
})

And I am not sure how to change set the selectedIndex in onChanged function. Please help me in this. Thanks

CodePudding user response：

late int selectedIndex;  //where I want to store the selected index
late String initialDropDownVal;
List<DropdownMenuItem<String>> dropdownItems = [];


excel = Excel.decodeBytes(bytes);
sheet = excel['Sheet1'];
for(int i = 1; i< sheet.maxCols;   i){
   var cell = sheet.cell(CellIndex.indexByColumnRow(rowIndex: 0, columnIndex: i));
   String val = cell.value.toString(); 
   if(val=="null"){
        break;
   }else{
      if(i==1){
         initialDropDownVal = val;
      }
      var newItem = DropdownMenuItem(
         child: Text(val),
              value: val,
          );
       dropdownItems.add(newItem);
   }

}


DropdownButton(
 value: selectedVal,
 icon: const Icon(Icons.keyboard_arrow_down),
 items: dropdownItems,
 onChanged: (String? value){
      setState(() {
            initialDropDownVal = value!;
selectedIndex=dropdownItems.indexWhere((i)=>i.value==value);
       });
})

CodePudding user response：

late int selectedIndex;  //where I want to store the selected index
late String initialDropDownVal;
List<Map<String,int>> dropdownItems = [];

excel = Excel.decodeBytes(bytes);
sheet = excel['Sheet1'];
for(int i = 1; i< sheet.maxCols;   i){
   var cell = sheet.cell(CellIndex.indexByColumnRow(rowIndex: 0, columnIndex: i));
   String val = cell.value.toString(); 
   if(val=="null"){
        break;
   }else{
      if(i==1){
         initialDropDownVal = val;
      }
      dropdownItems.add({val:i}); 
   }

}

DropdownButton(
 value: selectedVal,
 icon: const Icon(Icons.keyboard_arrow_down),
 items: dropdownItems.map((e) {
             return DropdownMenuItem(
                    child: Text(e.keys.first),
                    value: e.keys.first,
             );
       }).toList(),
onChanged: (String? value){
            setState(() {
            initialDropDownVal = value!;
                          
            for(int i = 0; i< dropdownItems.length;   i){
                if(dropdownItems[i].keys.first==value){
                     setState(() {
                           selectedIndex = dropdownItems[i].values.first;
                       
                      });
                      break;
                            }
                          }
                        });
                      }),
)