IsEmpty check returning wrong value for TextEditingController

The Problem

The isEmpty check is returning true for a non-empty String field. My guess is – TextEditingController’s String metadata is not updating with string update from an async load.

1. I’m not sure if I’m missing something obvious or if this is a Dart/Flutter bug.
2. Is there an idiomatic way to accomplish this check?

Here’s my code

  var textController = TextEditingController();

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    init();
  }

  void init() async {
    final foo = await FooProvider.instance.getFoo(widget.uuid);
    textController.text = foo.title;
  }

The actual usage of the textController,

GestureDetector(
                onTap: textController.text.isEmpty
                    ? () {
                        debugPrint('Empty - ${textController.text}');
                      }
                    : () {
    // rest of the code

Output
(With actual field value "abc")

>Solution :

An alternative solution is to do the check inside a single implementation of onTap instead of two different ones, like this

GestureDetector(
            onTap: () {
                    if (textController.text.isEmpty) {
                      debugPrint('Empty - ${textController.text}');
                    } else {
                      // rest of the code
                    }
                  }