According to node.js Documentation encoding : null when binary data to be sent via Api,
https://www.npmjs.com/package/request in this link below mentioned explanation is found.
encoding - encoding to be used on setEncoding of response data. If null, the body is returned as a Buffer. Anything else (including the default value of undefined) will be passed as the encoding parameter to toString() (meaning this is effectively utf8 by default).
Note: if you expect binary data, you should set encoding: null.
Now I have achieve the same thing in flutter/dart and this encoding parameter is not accepting null as here in node.js they have mentioned.
I want to know how to make this same Post request from Flutter/dart or at least android/java.
var enc = AESCrypt.encrypt(key, iv, JSON.stringify(obj_j));
var output = new Buffer.from(enc, 'hex'); // Buffer
function test() {
console.time("XXX");
request.post({
headers: {
'content-type': 'application/json'
}, //required, or webserver will ignore it application/json multipart/form-data
url: 'http://192.168.29.210/deviceid/read', // webserver url
encoding:null,
body: output
},
function (error, response, body) {
if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
console.timeEnd("XXX");
body = AESCrypt.decrypt(key, iv, body);
//body is decrypted http response, can be parsed with json method
fs.writeFile('input.json', body, function (err) {
if (err) {
return console.error(err);
}
});
}
});
};
Adding code the What i have tried in flutter
var headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'};
var request =
http.Request('POST', Uri.parse('http://192.168.29.210/deviceid/read'));
request.body = encryptedText;
request.encoding = null ; // here this null parameter is not acceptable
request.encoding = Encoding.getByName("utf-8")); // only this option is available to add in flutter
request.headers.addAll(headers);
http.StreamedResponse response = await request.send();
Even in post man this encoding variable is not present to set it.
Use below flutter framework method
Future<Response> post(Uri url,
{Map<String, String>? headers, Object? body, Encoding? encoding}) =>
_withClient((client) =>
client.post(url, headers: headers, body: body, encoding: encoding));
How to use
final url = Uri.parse('$urlPrefix/posts');
final headers = {"Content-type": "application/json"};
final json = '{"title": "Hello", "body": "body text", "userId": 1}';
final response = await post(url, headers: headers, body: json,encoding:null); //here this null parameter is not acceptable
My Final working code is
var headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'};
final response = await http.post(
Uri.parse('http://192.168.29.210/deviceid/read'),
headers: headers,
body: encryptedText,
encoding: null);
if (response.statusCode == 200) {
String res = response.body.toString();
//String data = AesEncryption().decryption(res);
print('Body: ${response.body.toString()}');
} else {
print(response.reasonPhrase);
}
print('Status code: ${response.statusCode}');