wait until firebase retrieves data

Question

I want to build a method that returns a child value in FireBase. I tried to do something like this:

public String getMessage(){

           


        

Answer 1

Make an interface

 public interface OnGetDataListener {
    //this is for callbacks
    void onSuccess(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot);
    void onStart();
    void onFailure();
}

Declare the following function readData()

public void readData(Firebase ref, final OnGetDataListener listener) {
    listener.onStart();
    ref.addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {
        @Override
        public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
            listener.onSuccess(dataSnapshot);
        }

        @Override
        public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) {
            listener.onFailure();
        }
    });

}

Call the readData() function as follows

readData(root.child("MessagesOnLaunch").child("Message"), new OnGetDataListener() {
                @Override
                public void onSuccess(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

               //got data from database....now you can use the retrieved data


                }
                @Override
                public void onStart() {
                    //when starting
                    Log.d("ONSTART", "Started");
                }

                @Override
                public void onFailure() {
                    Log.d("onFailure", "Failed");
                }
            });

readData() can be called inside your getMessage() method or even inside onCreate()