Issue with Hive + Flutter Driver for Integration Tests about hive

[jamesdixon]

I agree that Flutter Driver doesn't like it but FutureBuilder isn't an option for me as in my real application, I initialize a service layer at startup and one of those services is a LocalStorageService that's using Hive.

Theoretically, since main is async, I would expect Flutter Driver to respect that and wait for it to finish initializing but it appears that isn't the case. I'll file an issue in the main Flutter repo and report back.

Thanks!

[jamesdixon]

@leisim I went ahead an opened an issue in the Flutter repo as I don't think this is Hive-specific after doing more testing.

flutter/flutter#41029

[simc]

Thanks that you took the time to file this issue.
I think the problem is that you open a box in the main method.

Running the app will be delayed for a split second and Flutter Driver does not seem to like that.

You should use a FutureBuilder to open a box. Here you can find an example.