Breaking Change: dart:html HttpRequest.get/getWithCredentials

[Pete Blois]

FYI-

We'll be removing the HttpRequest.get and getWithCredentials factory constructors and replacing them with static methods returning futures. These are primarily ease-of-use methods and we're looking to make them a bit easier to use.

Old syntax:

new HttpRequest.get(url, (xhr) {

  if (xhr.status == 200) {

    var result = xhr.response;

  } else {

    // error?

  }

});

New syntax:

HttpRequest.request(url).then(

  (xhr) {

    var result = xhr.response;

  },

  onError: (e) {

     // error!

  });

HttpRequest.getWithCredentials will be HttpRequest.request(url, withCredentials: true);

For simple get scenarios you can use HttpRequest.getString(url) which returns a Future<String>.

[Shannon Behrens]

Was there supposed to be a deprecation period? I was kind of surprised by this today since yesterday, I had no deprecation warnings, and today my code broke.

Thanks!

-jj

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[Pete Blois]

We've only been deprecating the very heavily used APIs- there will still be non-deprecated breaking changes coming, but hopefully they aren't too difficult to integrate.