Adding a factory method to create a request/response (http package) from a request/response (io package)

[Pacane]

I think it could be cool to be able to create one of these when I'm using another framework that's using io.HttpResponse, I like the Future api you provide.

ie: using redstone.dart

import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
import 'dart:io';

// this returns an HttpResponse from dart:io
HttpResponse resp = await app.dispatch(req);
// what I'd like to do then
http.HttpResponse myResponse = new http.HttpResponse.fromIoResponse(resp);
// use it ..
String body = await myResponse.body;

[nex3]

Do you mean HttpClientResponse? HttpResponse is a server-side class, and this package is only for client-side HTTP.

Regardless, I don't think this functionality is useful enough to bake in. It's pretty easy to do the wrapping yourself, if you want, but most of the benefit of this API over dart:io is handling the request/response lifecycle, which is already done by the time you have a response in hand.

[Pacane]

What do you mean it's only for client side?

Taken from the README

The easiest way to use this library is via the top-level functions, although they currently only work on platforms where dart:io is available. They allow you to make individual HTTP requests with minimal hassle:

import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

var url = "http://example.com/whatsit/create";
http.post(url, body: {"name": "doodle", "color": "blue"})
    .then((response) {
  print("Response status: ${response.statusCode}");
  print("Response body: ${response.body}");
});

http.read("http://example.com/foobar.txt").then(print);

and what is the easy way of wrapping you were talking about?

[nex3]

That code snippet is a request being made by an HTTP client.

You can wrap by basically doing the same thing IOClient does internally.