How to get response body with request.send() in dart

Question

I\'m doing an api request uploading an image with

var request = new http.MultipartRequest(\"POST\", uri);
var response = await request.send()

i

Answer 1

You can cast after first response, look :

var postUri = Uri.parse("http://my-api.com/updatePhoto");
var request = new http.MultipartRequest("POST", postUri);

request.fields['user_id'] = user_id

request.files.add(await http.MultipartFile.fromPath(
  'photo',
  myPhoto.absolute.path,
  contentType: new MediaType('application', 'x-tar'),
));

request.send().then((result) async {

  http.Response.fromStream(result)
      .then((response) {

    if (response.statusCode == 200)
    {
      print("Uploaded! ");
      print('response.body '+response.body);
    }

    return response.body;

  });
}).catchError((err) => print('error : '+err.toString()))
    .whenComplete(()
{});

Answer 2

Just use http.Response.fromStream()

import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

var streamedResponse = await request.send()
var response = await http.Response.fromStream(streamedResponse);

Answer 3

Your MultipartRequest returns a Streamed Response since you used request.send. You will need to extract the string value from the response like below:

import 'package:http/http.dart'

var request = new MultipartRequest("POST", uri);
var response = await request.send()

// Extract String from Streamed Response
var responseString = await response.stream.bytesToString();

In this case the responseString will be just like response.body of

final response = await post(URL, body : map);

Answer 4

I checked the docs for request.send I returns Future<StreamedResponse> instead of Future<Response>

Digging more for StreamedResponse I found that it response.stream which is a ByteStream

Here is what you can do to get response in String

final response = await request.send();
final respStr = await response.stream.bytesToString();

In my opinoin you should only use request.send if you want streamed response instead of "collected" response. More about streams in dart here