Flutter: How to Refresh token when token expires during http call?

Question

I am new to flutter and I am using http package for network call. I want to refresh token and call the request again if the response code of the request 200. How can I acheive this using http package? I heard about dio package but it is complicated for me.

User getUser(){

   final response = http.post(Uri.https(BASE_URL, '/api/user'), 
    headers: {'Authorization: Bearer $token'});

    if(response.statusCode == 200){
       return User.fromJson(jsonDecode(response.body)['user']);
    }
    else if(response.statusCode == 401){
      //refresh token and call getUser again     
    }

}

Answer 1

You can use refresh token as follows:

User getUser(){

   final response = http.post(Uri.https(BASE_URL, '/api/user'), 
    headers: {'Authorization: Bearer $token'});

    if(response.statusCode == 200){
       return User.fromJson(jsonDecode(response.body)['user']);
    }
    else if(response.statusCode == 401){
      //refresh token and call getUser again
      final response = http.post(Uri.https(BASE_URL, '/api/[YourAuthorizationEndpoint]'), 
    headers: {'grant_type': 'refresh_token', 'refresh_token': '$refresh_token'});
      token = jsonDecode(response.body)['token'];
      refresh_token = jsonDecode(response.body)['refresh_token'];
      return getUser();
    }

}