The getter 'future' isn't defined - n00b alert

[amireldor]

Hi, I'm rather new to Flutter/Dart and I think I'm doing something silly. When trying to wait for a .future on a provider from another provider, I get a warning that this .future getter is not defined.

import 'package:riverpod_annotation/riverpod_annotation.dart';

part 'auth.g.dart';

// Did I do something wrong here?
@riverpod
Future<String> authProvider(AuthProviderRef ref) async {
  await Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 3));
  return 'hello';
}

And on another provider:

import 'package:nice_app/providers/auth.dart';
import 'package:riverpod_annotation/riverpod_annotation.dart';

part 'games.g.dart';

@riverpod
Future<void> gamesProvider(GamesProviderRef ref) async {
  await ref.watch(authProvider.future); // warning attached below
}

And I get the following warning:

I am probably missing something very basic but it's almost 2am and my brain is not working. Thanks.

[charlescyt]

That's because authProvider is not referring to the actual generated FutureProvider. It is referring to the function

@riverpod
Future<String> authProvider(AuthProviderRef ref) async {
  await Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 3));
  return 'hello';
}

Change the code to await ref.watch(authProviderProvider.future); and it will work.
But this is rather confusing having a ProviderProvider so generally you wouldn't suffix your provider with provider.

@riverpod
Future<String> auth(AuthRef ref) async {
  await Future.delayed(const Duration(seconds: 3));
  return 'hello';
}

[amireldor]

Thanks 🤣🤣
I was missing the part about the auto-suffix.