How to fetch API data with ReactNative and Redux

Question

I'm creating this component for fetch data from "https://facebook.github.io/react-native/movies.json" file. I am trying this as a testing app and later planned to use my actual API endpoint. However, i'm struggling to show data in the screen. It doesn't give any error or show errors.How can i add activity Indicator to check whether data is fetching and show data in ?

Action

import {
  FETCHING_ASSISTANT_REQUEST,
  FETCHING_ASSISTANT_SUCCESS,
  FETCHING_ASSISTANT_FAILURE
} from "./types";

export function fetchAssistantRequest() {
  return {
    type: FETCHING_ASSISTANT_REQUEST
  };
}

export function fetchAssistantFailure(errorMessage) {
  return {
    type: FETCHING_ASSISTANT_FAILURE,
    errorMessage
  };
}

export const fetchAssistant = () => {
  return async dispatch => {
    dispatch(fetchAssistantRequest());
    try {
      let response = await fetch(
        "https://facebook.github.io/react-native/movies.json"
      );
      let json = await response.json();
      dispatch(fetchAssistantSuccess(json.results));
    } catch (error) {
      dispatch(fetchAssistantFailure(error));
    }
  };
};

Reducer

import {
  FETCHING_ASSISTANT_REQUEST,
  FETCHING_ASSISTANT_SUCCESS,
  FETCHING_ASSISTANT_FAILURE
} from "../actions/types";

//initial states
const initialState = {
  isFetching: false,
  errorMessage: null,
  assistant: []
};

export default function assistantReducer(state = initialState, action) {
  switch (action.type) {
    //fetching state
    case FETCHING_ASSISTANT_REQUEST:
      return { ...state, isFetching: true };
    //success state
    case FETCHING_ASSISTANT_SUCCESS:
      return { ...state, isFetching: false, assistant: action.data };
    //faliuer state
    case FETCHING_ASSISTANT_FAILURE:
      return { ...state, isFetching: false, errorMessage: action.errorMessage };

    default:
      return state;
  }
}

App Reducer

import .. from ".."
const AppReducer = combineReducers({
  auth: AuthReducer,
  // assis: AssistanceReduer,
  // assistant: DumyReducer,
  assis: AssisReducer
});

export default AppReducer;

App

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { View, Text, StyleSheet } from "react-native";
import { connect } from "react-redux";

import { fetchAssistant } from "../actions/AssistantAction";

class Assistant extends React.Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.props.getAssistance;
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <View>
        <Text> {this.props.assistant.assistant.title}</Text>
        <Text>{JSON.stringify(this.props.assistant.assistant.title)}</Text>
      </View>
    );
  }
}
function mapStateToProps(state) {
  return {
    assistant: state.assis
  };
}

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
  return {
    getAssistance: () => dispatch(fetchAssistant())
  };
}

export default connect(
  mapStateToProps,
  mapDispatchToProps
)(Assistant);

STORE

import { createStore, applyMiddleware, compose } from "redux";
import { composeWithDevTools } from "remote-redux-devtools";
import thunk from "redux-thunk";
import AppReducer from "../reducers/AppReducer";

const store = createStore(
  AppReducer,
  {}, // initial state
  composeWithDevTools(applyMiddleware(thunk))
);

export default store;

Carlo G · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-19 06:28:11Z

This is an untested solution, but it should work. To show an activity indicator you have to use the isFetching variable in your redux store. Since "assistant" is an array, you have to use map() it to show every single item. A better solution would be a FlatList, of course.

import React, { Component } from "react";
import { View, Text, StyleSheet, ActivityIndicator } from "react-native";
import { connect } from "react-redux";

import { fetchAssistant } from "../actions/AssistantAction";

class Assistant extends React.Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    this.props.getAssistance();
  }

  render() {
    if(this.props.isFetching) return (<ActivityIndicator size="small" color="#00ff00" />);

    return (
      <View>
        {this.props.assistant.assistant.map(item => <Text key={item.id}>{item.title}</Text>)}
      </View>
    );
  }
}
function mapStateToProps(state) {
  return {
    isFetching: state.isFetching,
    assistant: state.assis
  };
}

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) {
  return {
    getAssistance: () => dispatch(fetchAssistant())
  };
}

export default connect(
  mapStateToProps,
  mapDispatchToProps
)(Assistant);

Community · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-20 09:12:55Z

0

Well immediately it looks like your fetchAssistantSuccess function is not defined in your Actions file, so I am unsure how that action would be dispatched. You would need something like

Action.js

export function fetchAssistantSuccess(payload) {
  return {
    type: FETCHING_ASSISTANT_SUCCESS,
    payload
  };
}

and in your Reducer.js

case FETCHING_ASSISTANT_SUCCESS:
      return { ...state, isFetching: false, assistant: action.payload};

Also, you may want to test the endpoint separately in something like postman to ensure it's passing the correct data.

edited Jun 20, 2020 at 9:12

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