📱 Flutter Tip: Sending Large Text Data to Servers
Have you ever struggled to send massive text files from your Flutter app to a server? Here's a quick rundown of my recent experience:
I explored three options:
1) Plain Text
✅ Simple to implement ❌ No structure or metadata
2) JSON
✅ Great for structured data ❌ Adds overhead for simple text
3) Form Data
✅ Efficient for file transfers ❌ Slightly more complex setup
My choice? Form Data with Dio!
Here's why: My text was huge, and Form Data let me treat it like a file upload. Using the Dio package in Flutter, I created a FormData object and attached my text file, and it was smooth sailing to the server.
Dio made tracking progress and handling errors easy, which was crucial for large transfers.
Pro tip: For very large files, consider breaking them into chunks or using compression before sending.
What's your preferred method for handling large data in Flutter? Any challenges you've faced? Share your experiences!
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1moI'm really excited about macros and its Json serialization demo use case.