NodeJs http.get for Dart

Question

NodeJs http.get for Dart

In Node.js I can do:

var http = require('http')

var url = 'mylinkedsite.com'
http.get({ host: url }, function(){...})

In Dart I'm trying the same:

import 'dart:io';
import 'dart:uri';

var url = 'mylinkedsite.com';        
var client = new HttpClient();
var uri = new Uri.fromString(url);
var connection = client.getUrl(uri);
connection.onResponse = (res){...};

But I am unable to get the same result without the url.scheme and url.path explicitly added. Both of which are final. What's the simplest way to accomplish the same result.

node.js
dart

Answer 1

The HttpClient in dart:io supports strings as hostnames:

  var conn = httpClient.get("http://mylinkedsite.com", 80, "/");
  conn.onResponse = (HttpClientResponse response) {
    if(response.statusCode != 200) {
       // unexpected return code
    } else {
       // success, parse response
    }
  };
  conn.onError = (e) => completer.completeException(e);

only other method is http helper method to hide the URI call's behind a more node like interface.