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

You can use CountDownLatch. This is how you can use it.

public String getMessage(){
   CountDownLatch done = new CountDownLatch(1);
   final String message[] = {null}; 
   root.child("MessagesOnLaunch").child("Message").addListenerForSingleValueEvent(new ValueEventListener() {

    @Override
    public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
        message[0] = (String) dataSnapshot.getValue();
        System.out.println("worked");
        done.countDown();
    }

    @Override
    public void onCancelled(FirebaseError firebaseError) {
        System.out.println("failed"+firebaseError.getMessage());
    }
});

try {
    done.await(); //it will wait till the response is received from firebase.
} catch(InterruptedException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}
return message[0];
}