How to use livedata for making multiple network calls?

Question

i am working on a project in which i am trying to implement Android architecture components with data binding. I have an activity, viewmodel and repository and i am crating a login page right now. I have to make two repository functions to make the user login, the first function will return the uid and by passing this uid, the second function will return the details. once everything is done then only i want to redirect the user to inside page. I have tried with Transformations.switchMap, which is not working. Please help...

public class LoginViewModel extends ViewModel {
private final VendorRepository vendorRepository;
private final ResourceProvider resourceProvider;
public MutableLiveData<String> error = new MutableLiveData<>();
public MutableLiveData<Boolean> loading = new MutableLiveData<>();
private MutableLiveData<Resource<String>> vendorId = new MutableLiveData<>();
public LiveData<Resource<Vendor>> vendor;

public LoginViewModel() {
    this.vendorRepository = VendorRepository.getInstance();
    this.resourceProvider = ResourceProvider.getInstance();
    /*vendor = Transformations.switchMap(vendorId, new Function<Resource<String>, LiveData<Resource<Vendor>>>() {
        @Override
        public LiveData<Resource<Vendor>> apply(Resource<String> input) {
            if (input!=null&&input.status.equals(Status.SUCCESS))
            return vendorRepository.getVendor(vendorId.getValue().data);
            else return null;
        }
    });*/
}

/**
 * called when a user clicks on the login button
 * if the inputs are valid, will call the login function
 *
 * @param email    entered email
 * @param password entered password
 */
public void onClickLogin(String email, String password) {
    //loading.setValue(true);
    if (validInputs(email, password)) {
        vendorId = vendorRepository.login(
                email, password
        );
    } else loading.setValue(false);
}}

This is my viewmodel

public class VendorRepository {
private static VendorRepository INSTANCE;
private FirebaseAuth firebaseAuth;
private FirebaseFirestore firebaseFirestore;

public static VendorRepository getInstance() {
    if (INSTANCE == null)
        INSTANCE = new VendorRepository();
    return INSTANCE;
}

private VendorRepository() {
    this.firebaseAuth = FirebaseAuth.getInstance();
    this.firebaseFirestore = FirebaseFirestore.getInstance();
}

public MutableLiveData<Resource<String>> login(String email, String password) {
    final MutableLiveData<Resource<String>> data = new MutableLiveData<>();
    data.setValue(Resource.<String>loading(null));
    firebaseAuth
            .signInWithEmailAndPassword(email, password)
            .addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<AuthResult>() {
                @Override
                public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<AuthResult> task) {
                    if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                        data.postValue(Resource.success(task.getResult().getUser().getUid()));
                    } else {
                        data.postValue(Resource.<String>error(task.getException().getMessage(), null));
                    }
                }
            });
    return data;
}

public LiveData<Resource<Vendor>> getVendor(String id) {
    final MutableLiveData<Resource<Vendor>> data = new MutableLiveData<>();
    data.postValue(Resource.<Vendor>loading(null));
    firebaseFirestore
            .collection(DB_VENDOR)
            .document(id)
            .get()
            .addOnCompleteListener(new OnCompleteListener<DocumentSnapshot>() {
                @Override
                public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<DocumentSnapshot> task) {
                    if (task.isSuccessful()) {
                        Vendor vendor = task.getResult().toObject(Vendor.class);
                        data.postValue(Resource.success(vendor));
                    } else {
                        data.postValue(Resource.<Vendor>error(task.getException().getMessage(), null));
                    }
                }
            });
    return data;
} }

This is my repo

Answer 1

You need to add an observer of the vendorId livedata somewhere in your activity , possibly in onCreate(Bundle) after you have initialized the viewModel .

Your code will look something like this.

public final class MyActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    ...
    LoginViewModel mViewModel;

    @Override protected final void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.my_activity);
        mViewModel = ViewModelProviders.of(this)
            .get(LoginViewModel.class);

        //make vendorId public in the viewModel

        mViewModel.vendorId.observe ( this, new Observer<String> (){

            @Override public void onChanged(@Nullable final String vendorId) {
                VendorRepository.getInstance().getVendor(vendorId);
            }
        });

        //Similarly, add observer for the vendor live data
    }

}