Ionic 4: “Loading Controller” dismiss() is called before present() which will keep spinner without dismissing

Question

I used \"Ionic Loading Controller\" to show a spinner until the data is retrieved then it calls \"dismiss()\" to dismissed it. it works fine, but sometimes when the app alre

Answer 1

I'm using a similar solution but relying on the Ids of the loading overlays and letting the Ionic Loading Controller manage what overlay should be on top.

LoadingService

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { LoadingController } from '@ionic/angular';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class LoadingService {

  constructor(public loadingController: LoadingController) { }

  async present(loadingId: string, loadingMessage: string) {
    const loading = await this.loadingController.create({
      id: loadingId,
      message: loadingMessage
    });
    return await loading.present();
  }

  async dismiss(loadingId: string) {
    return await this.loadingController.dismiss(null, null, loadingId);
  }
}

Components/Services using the LoadingService

import { LoadingService } from '../loading/loading.service';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class MessagesService {

  ...

  constructor(
    protected http: HttpClient,
    protected loading: LoadingService
  ) { }

  ...

  protected async loadMessagesOverview() {
    const operationUrl = '/v1/messages/overview';

    await this.loading.present('messagesService.loadMessagesOverview', 'Loading messages...');

    this.http.get(environment.apiUrl + operationUrl)
      .subscribe((data: Result) => {
        ...
        this.loading.dismiss('messagesService.loadMessagesOverview');
      }, error => {
        ...
        this.loading.dismiss('messagesService.loadMessagesOverview');
        console.log('Error getting messages', error);
      });
  }

}