Today we have a tremendous episode of Flutter Explained. I have the honour to explain to you guys how a future request works. In one of my episodes, I explained the future builder but I left the network request out of scope. Today I will turn this around, we ignore the UI and concentrate only on the Network request.

We will create a Person Model that is our representation of a Person from the API in Dart. The fromJson Constructor will be very handy in that situation to create for us the Person object. After that, we will create a Future request with the HTTP package from pub.dev to get all the information that we want to display.

⭐️⭐️ Helpful Ressources ⭐️⭐️
Repository: https://github.com/md-weber/network_request_tutorial
Flutter JSON Serialization: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/data-and-backend/json

⭐️⭐️ Timeline ⭐️⭐️
0:40 – pub.dev access the HTTP package (https://pub.dev/packages/http)
1:30 – random user generator API (https://randomuser.me/)
2:45 – explaining the boilerplate
3:50 – creating of the person model
5:50 – fromJson Constructor
9:20 – get the data/network service
10:55 – Dependency on the HTTP package
11:50 – Import the HTTP package
13:15 – Response object and Future
15:15 – Short Recap
15:50 – JSON and jsonDecode from dart:convert
17:45 – map the JSON to a Person object
18:45 – Complete the network request
22:40 – Challange
23:25 – Outro

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