Client class abstract

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 http.head, http.get, http.post, http.put, http.patch, or http.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.

Implementers

Constructors

Client()
Creates a new platform appropriate client.
factory

Properties

hashCode → int
The hash code for this object.
no setterinherited
runtimeType → Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
no setterinherited

Methods

close() → void
Closes the client and cleans up any resources associated with it.
delete(Uri url, {Map<String, String>? headers, Object? body, Encoding? encoding}) → Future<Response>
Sends an HTTP DELETE request with the given headers to the given URL.
get(Uri url, {Map<String, String>? headers}) → Future<Response>
Sends an HTTP GET request with the given headers to the given URL.
Sends an HTTP HEAD request with the given headers to the given URL.
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.
inherited
patch(Uri url, {Map<String, String>? headers, Object? body, Encoding? encoding}) → Future<Response>
Sends an HTTP PATCH request with the given headers and body to the given URL.
post(Uri url, {Map<String, String>? headers, Object? body, Encoding? encoding}) → Future<Response>
Sends an HTTP POST request with the given headers and body to the given URL.
put(Uri url, {Map<String, String>? headers, Object? body, Encoding? encoding}) → Future<Response>
Sends an HTTP PUT request with the given headers and body to the given URL.
read(Uri url, {Map<String, String>? headers}) → Future<String>
Sends an HTTP GET request with the given headers to the given URL and returns a Future that completes to the body of the response as a String.
readBytes(Uri url, {Map<String, String>? headers}) → Future<Uint8List>
Sends an HTTP GET request with the given headers to the given URL 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.
toString() → String
A string representation of this object.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) → bool
The equality operator.
inherited