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onBack stream not closed

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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
dart, flutter
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Open lib/base.dart and inspect the dispose method, then trace the _onBack stream controller created there. Confirm whether disposal should close that controller, and verify that the onBack stream is closed when the plugin is disposed.

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Description

System info

Issue occurs on: both
Plugin version: 0.3.11
Flutter doctor output:

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[√] Flutter (Channel stable, v1.12.13+hotfix.9, on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.900], locale en-NZ)

[√] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 30.0.0)
[√] Android Studio (version 4.0)
[√] VS Code, 64-bit edition (version 1.46.0)
[√] Connected device (1 available)

• No issues found!

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Navigate to the file base.dart in the plugin lib.
  2. scroll down to dispose method.

image

as you can see also in the image, the _onBack stream controller is created but never closed in the dispose. Not sure if this was on purpose or not.

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