The interface for HTTP clients that take care of maintaining persistent connections across multiple requests to the same server. If you only need to send a single request, it's usually easier to use head, get, post, put, patch, or delete instead.

When creating an HTTP client class with additional functionality, you must extend BaseClient rather than Client. In most cases, you can wrap another instance of Client and add functionality on top of that. This allows all classes implementing Client to be mutually composable.

Static Properties

clientOverride ClientOverride

read / write

Constructors

Client()

Creates a new client.

factory

Properties

hashCode int

Get a hash code for this object.

read-only, inherited
runtimeType Type

A representation of the runtime type of the object.

read-only, inherited

Operators

operator ==(other) bool

The equality operator.

inherited

Methods

close() → void

Closes the client and cleans up any resources associated with it. It's important to close each client when it's done being used; failing to do so can cause the Dart process to hang.

delete(url, { Map<String, String> headers }) Future<Response>

Sends an HTTP DELETE request with the given headers to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String.

get(url, { Map<String, String> headers }) Future<Response>

Sends an HTTP GET request with the given headers to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String.

Sends an HTTP HEAD request with the given headers to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String.

patch(url, { Map<String, String> headers, body, Encoding encoding }) Future<Response>

Sends an HTTP PATCH request with the given headers and body to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String.

post(url, { Map<String, String> headers, body, Encoding encoding }) Future<Response>

Sends an HTTP POST request with the given headers and body to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String.

put(url, { Map<String, String> headers, body, Encoding encoding }) Future<Response>

Sends an HTTP PUT request with the given headers and body to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String.

read(url, { Map<String, String> headers }) Future<String>

Sends an HTTP GET request with the given headers to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String, and returns a Future that completes to the body of the response as a String.

readBytes(url, { Map<String, String> headers }) Future<Uint8List>

Sends an HTTP GET request with the given headers to the given URL, which can be a Uri or a String, and returns a Future that completes to the body of the response as a list of bytes.

send(BaseRequest request) Future<StreamedResponse>

Sends an HTTP request and asynchronously returns the response.

noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic

Invoked when a non-existent method or property is accessed.

inherited
toString() String

Returns a string representation of this object.

inherited