How to get the claims from a JWT in my Flutter Application

Question

I am writing a Flutter/Dart application and am getting a JWT back from an auth server that has some claims I need to use. I have looked at various (4 so far) Dart JWT libra

Answer 1

JWT tokens are just base64 encoded JSON strings (3 of them, separated by dots):

import 'dart:convert';

Map parseJwt(String token) {
  final parts = token.split('.');
  if (parts.length != 3) {
    throw Exception('invalid token');
  }

  final payload = _decodeBase64(parts[1]);
  final payloadMap = json.decode(payload);
  if (payloadMap is! Map) {
    throw Exception('invalid payload');
  }

  return payloadMap;
}

String _decodeBase64(String str) {
  String output = str.replaceAll('-', '+').replaceAll('_', '/');

  switch (output.length % 4) {
    case 0:
      break;
    case 2:
      output += '==';
      break;
    case 3:
      output += '=';
      break;
    default:
      throw Exception('Illegal base64url string!"');
  }

  return utf8.decode(base64Url.decode(output));
}