How to Daynamically add Keys and Values to a mutable map in kotlin

Issue

I am facing a strange error I can't figure out why exactly this happens, as I have a mutableMapOf and I want to keep adding keys and values to it dynamically every time they add new items. what happens is that no matter how much data its entered it only stores the last items, If I hard coded the data it stores it normally, but within the scope of the method it doesn't work and I cant figure out why?

private fun showDialogBody() {
    val dialog = Dialog(this)
    dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE)
    dialog.setCancelable(true)
    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.dialogue_view)
    val bodyKey = dialog.findViewById(R.id.key) as EditText
    val bodyvalue = dialog.findViewById(R.id.value) as EditText
    val addBtn = dialog.findViewById(R.id.dialogDismiss_button) as Button
    val finishBtn = dialog.findViewById(R.id.dialogDismiss_finish_button) as Button

    keyjson = bodyKey.text.toString().trim()
    valuejson = bodyvalue.text.toString().trim()

    jsonMap = mutableMapOf(keyjson to valuejson)

    addBtn.setOnClickListener {

        jsonMap.put(keyjson, valuejson)


        Toast.makeText(this, "${bodyKey.text} Added", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
        bodyKey.text.clear()
        bodyvalue.text.clear()
    }
    finishBtn.setOnClickListener {
        dialog.dismiss()
        Toast.makeText(this, " number of key value ${jsonMap.size}", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()

    }
    dialog.show()

}

Solution

It's because you're doing this when you initialise the dialog:

keyjson = bodyKey.text.toString().trim()
valuejson = bodyvalue.text.toString().trim()

You're setting those values once, right after the dialog's layout has been inflated. So those values are just the initial contents of those EditTexts. Even if the user types something into them, keyjson and valuejson are never changed.

You need to read those values right before you store them, so you're grabbing the current data:

addBtn.setOnClickListener {
    val keyjson = bodyKey.text.toString().trim()
    val valuejson = bodyvalue.text.toString().trim()
    jsonMap.put(keyjson, valuejson)

    Toast.makeText(this, "${bodyKey.text} Added", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
    bodyKey.text.clear()
    bodyvalue.text.clear()
}

Answered By - cactustictacs