ViewModel Property getting set to many times and with null value

Question

My Xamarin Forms app has a view with a Xamarin forms picker. The picker's ItemsSource is filled with a list. That list is filled by an observable which loads its data from an akavache cache and overrides that data after a service call is completet. The picker's selected item is filled based on that list.

the selected item is correctly filled from cache, and also the service call fills the selected item correctly. But after that the setter from the selected item is called again with a null value.

    public CreditCardListItem SelectedCreditCardListItem  
    {  
        get => selectedCreditCardListItem;  
        set  
        {  
            if (Expense == null ||   
                selectedCreditCardListItem == value)  
            {  
                return;  
            }  

            var valueContainsACreditCardListItem = value != null;  
            if (valueContainsACreditCardListItem)  
            {  
                var valueContainsARealCreditCard = value.Id != null;  
                if (valueContainsARealCreditCard)  
                {  
                    Expense.ExpenseType = ExpenseType.CreditCard;  
                    Expense.CreditCardId = value.Id;  

                    if (Expense.BundleId != null)  
                    {  
                        Expense.BundleId = null;  
                        SelectedExpenseBundleListItem = null;  
                    }  
                }  
                else  
                {  
                    Expense.ExpenseType = ExpenseType.Standard;  
                    Expense.CreditCardId = null;  
                }  

                selectedCreditCardListItem = value;  
                RaisePropertiesChanged();  
            }  

            if (selectedCreditCardListItem == null)  
            {  
                SetNoCreditCard();  
            }  

            RaisePropertyChanged(nameof(propertiesDependingOnExpense));  
            RaisePropertiesChanged(propertiesDependingOnCreditCardChange);  
        }  
    }  

Answer 1

Hello,​

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Is there any error occured? I tested the code in basic demo, and encountered the following exception when selecting an item of the picker.
Java.Lang.NullPointerException: 'Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.String java.lang.Object.toString()' on a null object reference'

The problem is due to the 'ItemDisplayBinding' line code. Please try to set binding for ItemDisplayBinding to the parameter name instead of 'ModelClass.ParameterName'.

   <Picker   
       ...  
       ItemDisplayBinding="{Binding Path=CardNumber}"  
       />  

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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