I wrote some code to post tweets in C#. One of the things that tripped me up was the url-encoding of data since there seemed to be many options:
var input = "Hello Ladies + Gentlemen, a signed OAuth request!";
var expected = "Hello%20Ladies%20%2B%20Gentlemen%2C%20a%20signed%20OAuth%20request%21";
Console.WriteLine(WebUtility.UrlEncode(input) == expected); // False
Console.WriteLine(Uri.EscapeUriString(input) == expected); // False
Console.WriteLine(Uri.EscapeDataString(input) == expected); // True
I’m now trying to do the same thing in Dart. I’ve tried all the encode methods in the Uri class, but none seem to output the same.
Code: (DartPad)
print(Uri.encodeQueryComponent("Hello Ladies + Gentlemen, a signed OAuth request!"));
print(Uri.encodeFull("Hello Ladies + Gentlemen, a signed OAuth request!"));
print(Uri.encodeComponent("Hello Ladies + Gentlemen, a signed OAuth request!"));
Output:
Hello+Ladies+%2B+Gentlemen%2C+a+signed+OAuth+request%21
Hello%20Ladies%20+%20Gentlemen,%20a%20signed%20OAuth%20request!
Hello%20Ladies%20%2B%20Gentlemen%2C%20a%20signed%20OAuth%20request!
The last one (encodeComponent
) seems the closest, just the exclamation mark is wrong.
Is there an existing method that does this encoding as I require (the same as C#’s EscapeDataString
)?
2
Answers
The convert package works perfectly. There was previously a bug causing numbers to be encoded but a fix was merged and released today in 2.0.1.
I can’t find a Dart function that is equivalent to C#’s
EscapeDataString
, however I think I was able to implement one. Feel free to try it and see if you find any issues.See this Dartpad:
https://dartpad.dartlang.org/4336dad4dc0603952a7c2e545cb8726c
It’s based on the fact that the Dart docs says:
All characters except uppercase and lowercase letters, digits and the characters -_.!~*'() are percent-encoded.
So the functions I provided adds percent encoding of those specific characters.
As I understand it from the C# docs on
EscapeDataString
it does encode these characters by default whereas no Dart function I could find does that.