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A Dart and Flutter compatible library to simplify creating REST based API calls.
For Flutter based applications, this will offload the JSON decoding to a separate Isolate to avoid janking the UI thread on large JSON responses. For Dart Web / AngularDart based applications, this processes the JSON on the main thread because Isolates are not supported.
Add the repo to your Flutter pubspec.yaml
file.
dependencies:
rest_client: <<version>>
Then run...
flutter packages get
The API Client offers the following two built in authorizers.
BasicAuthorizer
-- To authenticate against an API using the BASIC username / password security models.TokenAuthorizer
-- To authorize against an API usingBearer
token based authorization.
import 'package:rest_client/rest_client.dart' as rc;
...
var client = rc.Client();
var request = rc.Request(
url: 'https://google.com',
);
var response = client.execute(
authorizor: rc.TokenAuthorizer(token: 'my_token_goes_here'),
request: request,
);
var body = response.body;
// do further processing here...