Upload Image/File to Strapi (Flutter Web)

Issue

I’m trying to upload an image to Strapi through Flutter Web. I’m aware (from this link) that I need to use FormData to do so. I’ve researched on many ways to do this and I stumble across Dio and of course Http.

Both solutions gave me errors:
Unsupported operation: MultipartFile is only supported where dart:io is available.

I’ve tried this code:

var request = new http.MultipartRequest("POST", Uri.parse(url));
    request.files.add(
      await http.MultipartFile.fromPath(
        "files",
        imageFilePath,
      ),
    );
    request.send().then((response) {
      if (response.statusCode == 200) print("Uploaded!");
      print(response.statusCode);
    }).catchError((e) => print(e));

As suggested here.

And many other getting errors or Empty Data (400), when I use MultipartFile.fromBytes(...).

I’m just trying to upload a file, therefore I assume my body should only contain the FormData with as files as it’s mentioned on Strapi’s Documentation.

Solution

So, I searched on the Flutter Discord for some help and I found out that my problem happens because Flutter Web can’t use 'dart:io' , and using 'dart:html' takes away the use of all of Flutter’s platforms.

I ended up using this imports:

import 'dart:convert';
import 'dart:typed_data';
import 'package:image_picker/image_picker.dart';
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
import 'package:http_parser/http_parser.dart';
import 'package:path/path.dart';
import 'package:async/async.dart';

and this is the function I created and worked:

 Future<bool> uploadImage(
    String imageFilePath,
    Uint8List imageBytes,
  ) async {
    String url = SERVERURL + "/uploadRoute";
    PickedFile imageFile = PickedFile(imageFilePath);
    var stream =
        new http.ByteStream(DelegatingStream.typed(imageFile.openRead()));

    var uri = Uri.parse(url);
    int length = imageBytes.length;
    var request = new http.MultipartRequest("POST", uri);
    var multipartFile = new http.MultipartFile('files', stream, length,
        filename: basename(imageFile.path),
        contentType: MediaType('image', 'png'));

    request.files.add(multipartFile);
    var response = await request.send();
    print(response.statusCode);
    response.stream.transform(utf8.decoder).listen((value) {
      print(value); 
    });

I had this issue using Strapi and this solution worked like a charm.

Answered By – Diego Cattarinich Clavel

Answer Checked By – Dawn Plyler (FlutterFixes Volunteer)