Flutter: There should be exactly one item with [DropdownButton]’s value

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Well, since no problem has an exact same solution. I was facing the same issue with my code. Here is How I fixed this.

CODE of my DropdownButton:

DropdownButton(
   items: _salutations
         .map((String item) =>
             DropdownMenuItem<String>(child: Text(item), value: item))
         .toList(),
    onChanged: (String value) {
       setState(() {
         print("previous ${this._salutation}");
         print("selected $value");
         this._salutation = value;
            });
          },
     value: _salutation,
),

The Error

In the code snippet below, I am setting the state for a selection value, which is of type String. Now problem with my code was the default initialization of this selection value.
Initially, I was initializing the variable _salutation as:

String _salutation = ""; //Notice the empty String.

This was a mistake!

Initial selection should not be null or empty as the error message correctly mentioned.

‘items == null || items.isEmpty || value == null ||

And hence the crash:

crash_message

Solution
Initialize the value object with some default value. Please note that the value should be the one of the values contained by your collection. If it is not, then expect a crash.

  String _salutation = "Mr."; //This is the selection value. It is also present in my array.
  final _salutations = ["Mr.", "Mrs.", "Master", "Mistress"];//This is the array for dropdown

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