Parsing JSON
Understand how to convert API HttpResponses into JSON using Dart's dart:convert library. Learn to extract movie details like title, description, and poster path from JSON objects to render in Flutter ListView components. This lesson helps you handle asynchronous data parsing and prepares you for organizing your API data handling code effectively.
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Introduction
In the last lesson, you learned how to receive the HttpResponse response from API. In this lesson, you’ll learn to convert responses into JSON, and parse them to render in Flutter ListView.
Parsing JSON
Dart provides the dart:convert library to parse JSON data. The apiResponse is the response returned from http.get(apiEndPoint). The json.decode() method takes the response’s body to parse it into Dart data structures.
//importing the Dart package
import 'dart:convert';
//Parsing API's HttpResponse to JSON format
json.decode(apiResponse.body)
The dart:convert library
The dart:convert ...