I'm new to Flutter testing and was hoping If you could help me. I've a class called AddShimmer that looks like this ->
AddShimmer(
child: ListTile(
title: buildLoadingAnimation(context),
),
),
Now, I'm trying to write a flutter test just to check if a child widget is being passed to the AddShimmer class. To do that, I'm writing something like this ->
testWidgets('Shimmer has a child widget', (WidgetTester tester) async {
const childWidget = ListTile(
title: Text('Loading'),
);
await tester.pumpWidget(
const AddShimmer(child: childWidget)
);
expect(find.byWidget(childWidget), findsOneWidget);
});
While I'm executing the test, I'm getting an exception which says ->
The following assertion was thrown building ListTile(dirty):
No Directionality widget found.
ListTile widgets require a Directionality widget ancestor.
The specific widget that could not find a Directionality ancestor was:
ListTile
What does it mean and how to test this out ??
Basically flutter needs some additional context in order to render the widget. I usually just wrap it in a Scaffold
inside a MaterialApp
.
await tester.pumpWidget(
const MaterialApp(
home: Scaffold(
body: AddShimmer(child: childWidget),
),
),
);