Converting Future to string flutter

Question

I am trying to convert the response from api to string in flutter. I am still a beginner to Flutter so I'm sorry about that. Whenever I do the get and assign it to a variable, the value is always 'Instance of Future' rather than the actual text? So does this mean I have to convert it to text? This is the code that I used.

gethttps() async{
  var response = await http.get(url);

  print("JSON" + response.body);

  String data = response.body;
  data = json.decode(response.body.toString());
  return data;
}

CALL FROM OUTSIDE THE FUNCTION

var response = gethttps();

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '20 at 16:25

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you can follow the link : https://stackoverflow.com/a/50296350/6413387

Basically you have two options

gethttps().then((result) {
  print(result);
  setState(() {
    someVal = result;
  })
})

or

funcThatMakesAsyncCall() async {
  String result = await gethttps();
  print(result);  
  setState(() {
    someVal = result;
  })
}

answered Dec 04 '20 at 16:25

towhid

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for some reason the setState doesn't seem to be working, it has red line underneath? – CSXZ Dec 04 '20 at 16:39
that means your widget is stateless widget – towhid Dec 04 '20 at 16:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 04 '20 at 16:09

0

You can change signature of function to this one

Future<String> gethttps() async{....}

and then use

var data=await gethttps();

user await

answered Dec 04 '20 at 16:09

Shojaeddin

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`ListView createArticleButtons() async { var response = await gethttps();` It shows an error on the ListView. How can I fix it please? – CSXZ Dec 04 '20 at 16:23
yeah, you can use FutureBuilder – towhid Dec 04 '20 at 16:27

Converting Future to string flutter

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