How to make a http post using form data in flutter - flutter

Question

I'm trying to do a http post request and I need to specify the body as form-data, because the server don't take the request as raw or params.
here is the code I tried
** Future getApiResponse(url) async {
try {
// fetching data from the url
final response = await http.get(Uri.parse(url));
// checking status codes.
if (response.statusCode == 200 || response.statusCode == 201) {
responseJson = jsonDecode(response.body);
// log('$responseJson');
}
// debugPrint(response.body.toString());
} on SocketException {
throw FetchDataException(message: 'No internet connection');
}
return responseJson;
}
}
but its not working. here is the post man request
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its not working on parms. only in body. its because this is in form data I guess.
how do I call form data in flutter using HTTP post?

Answer 1

First of all you can't send request body with GET request (you have to use POST/PUT etc.) and you can use Map for request body as form data because body in http package only has 3 types: String, List or Map. Try like this:
var formDataMap = Map<String, dynamic>();
formDataMap['username'] = 'username';
formDataMap['password'] = 'password';
final response = await http.post(
Uri.parse('http/url/of/your/api'),
body: formDataMap,
);
log(response.body);

Answer 2

For HTTP you can try this way
final uri = 'yourURL';
var map = new Map<String, dynamic>();
map['device-type'] = 'Android';
map['username'] = 'John';
map['password'] = '123456';
http.Response response = await http.post(
uri,
body: map,
);
I have use dio: ^4.0.6 to create FormData and API Calling.
//Create Formdata
formData = FormData.fromMap({
"username" : "John",
"password" : "123456",
"device-type" : "Android"
});
//API Call
final response = await (_dio.post(
yourURL,
data: formData,
cancelToken: cancelToken ?? _cancelToken,
options: options,
))