How to retrieve/decode json/map from downloaded ByteStream? - flutter

Question

I have a ByteStream downloaded from a Server, namely datas regarding the user.
Its in MySql server as
"username":"Neor","totalCoins":"350"
The truncated part of .php file that gives-away this data, is as follows:
$data = $stmt->fetchColumn();
header($_SERVER["SERVER_PROTOCOL"] . " 200 OK");
header("Cache-Control: public");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary");
header("Content-Length:".strlen($data));
echo $data;
I use ths Flutter code to download the data:
Future<void> downloadData() async {
var url = Uri.parse("https://example.com/mycloud.php");
var request = http.MultipartRequest('POST', url)
..fields["user"] = "Dia";
var response = await request.send();
var stream = response.stream; }
On checking if the downloaded ByteStream contains anything, I've used print(stream.length), which prints out as 137.
How can I get the information I want from the ByteStream?
(If my question lacks in any way, please let me know.)

Answer 1

There shouldn't be any need to use a multipart request for a simple POST. Instead use the simpler http.post method.
Future<void> downloadData() async {
final response = await http.post(
Uri.parse('https://example.com/mycloud.php'),
body: <String, String>{
'user': 'Dia',
},
);
final decodedJson = json.decode(response.body);
// if you want to ensure the character set used, replace this with:
// json.decode(utf8.decode(response.bodyBytes));
}
If you do stick with the stream way, you have a Stream<List<int>> that you want to turn initially into a List<int>. Use the toList() method on stream for that. Then you have to decode that into characters. JSON is always encoded in utf8, so you could:
json.decode(utf8.decode(await stream.toList()));
(Under the hood, http is basically doing that for you; collecting the stream together and doing the character decoding and presenting that as body.)

Answer 2

First
import 'dart:convert' show utf8;
String foo = utf8.decode(bytes);
Then
Map valueMap = json.decode(foo );