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Sarmad S.
Sarmad S.

Reputation: 261

How to get data from react context

I have a React class called GlobalDataProvider:

import React, { Component } from 'react';

const DataContext = React.createContext();
export default DataContext;

export class DataProvider extends Component {

  state = {
     title: 'Some title'
  }

  render() {
   return (
     <DataContext.Provider 
       value={{state: this.state}}>
       {this.props.children}
     </DataContext.Provider>
    )}
}

And I am trying to use data in another file "PageSection.js" like this:

import React from 'react';
import DataContext from '../data/GlobalDataProvider';

const PageSection= () =>{

return (
    <section className="page-section">
        <DataContext.Consumer>
            {(context) => (
                <h1>{ context.state.title }</h1>
            )}
        </DataContext.Consumer>
    </section>
 );
};

However this does not work for some reason. I get this error message:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'state' of undefined, 
  in PageSection.js line 11 (the line with this code: { context.state.title }).

What am I doing wrong?

Do I have to import the class DataProvider? or only the Context variable?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 13124

Answers (2)

Roy.B
Roy.B

Reputation: 2106

try:

export class DataProvider extends Component {

  state = {
     title: 'Some title'
  }

  render() {
   return (
     <DataContext.Provider 
       value={this.state}>
       {this.props.children}
     </DataContext.Provider>
    )}
}






const PageSection= () =>{

return (
  <DataProvider>
    <section className="page-section">
        <DataContext.Consumer>
            {(context) => (
                <h1>{ context.title }</h1>
            )}
        </DataContext.Consumer>
    </section>
 </DataProvider>
 );
};

Upvotes: 2

Doug Coburn
Doug Coburn

Reputation: 2575

I suspect you need your DataContext.Consumer to be a child element of the DataContext.Provider. Something like this...

import React from 'react';
import DataContext, { DataProvider } from '../data/GlobalDataProvider';

const PageSection= () =>{

return (
    <section className="page-section">
      <DataProvider>
        <DataContext.Consumer>
            {(context) => (
                <h1>{ context.state.title }</h1>
            )}
        </DataContext.Consumer>
      </DataProvider>
    </section>
 );
};

Upvotes: 5

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