type 'Future<dynamic>' is not a subtype of type 'List<dynamic>' in type cast

Question

I'm trying to get all the documents inside a determined collection from my firestore and after that, I want to set them in a list of documents which each position of the list represents a document. However, when I made the code, I received this error:

type 'Future' is not a subtype of type 'List' in type cast

import 'package:cloud_firestore/cloud_firestore.dart';

class Restaurant{

  String keyword;
  String state;
  String address;
  String city;
  int evaluation;
  String image;
  String phone;
  double rating;
  String schedule;
  String text;
  String title;

  Restaurant({
    this.keyword,
    this.state,
    this.address,
    this.city,
    this.evaluation,
    this.image,
    this.phone,
    this.rating,
    this.schedule,
    this.text,
    this.title
  });

  factory Restaurant.fromDatabase(DocumentSnapshot document){
    return Restaurant(
      keyword: document["keyword"] as String,
      state: document["state"] as String,
      address: document["address"] as String,
      city: document["city"] as String,
      evaluation: document["evaluation"],
      image: document["image"] as String,
      phone: document["phone"] as String,
      rating: document["rating"],
      schedule: document["schedule"] as String,
      text: document["text"] as String,
      title: document["title"] as String
    );
  }
}

import 'package:cloud_firestore/cloud_firestore.dart';
import 'package:cruke_app/restaurant.dart';

class RestaurantsViewModel {
  static List<Restaurant> restaurants;
  static List<DocumentSnapshot> allDocuments;

  static loadDocuments() async{
    var documents = await Firestore.instance.collection('restaurant').getDocuments();
    return documents;
  } 

  static Future loadRestaurants() async {
    try {

      restaurants = new List<Restaurant>();
      allDocuments = new List<DocumentSnapshot>();

      var documents = loadDocuments() as List;
      documents.forEach((dynamic snapshot) {
        allDocuments.add(snapshot);
      });

      for(int i=0; i < allDocuments.length; i++){
        restaurants.add(new Restaurant.fromDatabase(allDocuments[i]));
      }
    } catch (e) {
      print(e);
    }
  }
}

Karim Elghamry Karim Elghamry · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-26T20:10:23

you need to add await keyword before the Future call:

var documents = await loadDocuments() as List;

also, you need to change the return of the loadDocuments() method like this:

  static loadDocuments() async{
    var documents = await   Firestore.instance.collection('restaurant').getDocuments();
    return documents.documents; //this returns a List<DocumentSnapshot>
  }

type 'Future<dynamic>' is not a subtype of type 'List<dynamic>' in type cast

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