Have a class extending Text StatelessWidget be StatefulWidget

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I know that in Flutter composition is preferred over inheritance but for one use case I need my class to extend Text, since parameter only accepts Text classes & not all Widgets

Thing is I need to deal with States in this new class there for I was wondering if I can have

this class NeedsToBeStateful extends Text {} be something of Text extends StatefulWidget rather than class Text extends StatelessWidget

I would also need the Text data to be updated by the State


class NeedsToBeStateful extends Text {
  NeedsToBeStateful(
    {super.data = dataUpdatedByState}
  );

  @override
  Text build(BuildContext context) {
    return Text(
      data,
    );
  }
}

I was thinking of doing something like this but it didn't work


class NeedsToBeStateful extends Text with StatefulWidget{
  NeedsToBeStateful(
      {super.data = dataUpdatedByState}
  );

  @override
  Text build(BuildContext context) {
    return Text(
      data,
    );
  }
}
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1 Answers

Not sure if this works or if it's something you can work with, but maybe something like this is possible

class MyText extends Text {
  MyText(super.data);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MyState(child: super.build(context));
  }
}

class MyState extends StatefulWidget {
  final Widget child;
  const MyState({Key? key, required this.child}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  State<MyState> createState() => _State();
}

class _State extends State<MyState> {
  
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return widget.child;
  }
}
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