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xamarin.forms
Vincent Poirier
Vincent Poirier

Reputation: 4316

How do you return a value from a MessagingCenter call?

We are using Xamarin.Forms for our project and subscribed a MessagingCenter call onto the DisplayAlert and DisplayActionSheet native functions.

Here's how we subscribed it in our view:

MessagingCenter.Subscribe<ViewModelBase, List<string>> (this, "DisplayActionSheet", (sender, values) => {
    string title = values[0];
    values.RemoveAt(0);
    DisplayActionSheet (title, "Annuler", null, values.ToArray());
});

Here's how we implemented it in our ViewModel:

public async void DisplayActionSheet(string title, string[] actions){
    List<string> values = new List<string>(actions);
    values.Insert (0, title);
    MessagingCenter.Send<ViewModelBase, List<string>> (this, "DisplayActionSheet", values);
}

So we can call it this way:

string[] actions = {"Charmander", "Pikachu", "Squirtle"};
DisplayActionSheet("Choose your pokemon", actions);

How can we return a value to the message sender?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1806

Answers (1)

Wizche
Wizche

Reputation: 891

You could send back the result of the DisplayActionSheet via the MessagingCenter.

For example

await result = DisplayActionSheet(....);
MessagingCenter.Send<MyPage, string> (this, "DisplayResult", result);
// Then where you need it
MessagingCenter.Subscribe<MyPage, string> (this, "DisplayResult", (sender, displayResultString) => {
    // do something with displayResultString
});

Upvotes: 1

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