Dart - sending GET parameters that are lists - http

Question

I want to send parameters with an http GET request in dart. The first answer here demonstrates it well: How do you add query parameters to a Dart http request?
var uri =
Uri.https('www.myurl.com', '/api/query', queryParameters);
However, a major problem is that queryParameters only accepts:
Map<String, String>
This doesn't allow me to pass in lists/arrays.
If i change my get request to a post request, I am easily able to send a
body (as a json encoded String) as outlined by the flutter docs: https://pub.dev/documentation/http/latest/http/post.html
post(url, {Map<String, String> headers, body, Encoding encoding})
However, the get request has no such equivalent argument for query parameters: https://pub.dev/documentation/http/latest/http/get.html
get(url, {Map<String, String> headers})
I have also tried adding query parameters directly to the url like so:
get('www.myurl.com/api/query/?array[]=value1&array[]=value2&array[]=value3)
but the square brackets [] always get transformed into %5B%5D when I receive it in the server.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

In fact, queryParameter takes Map<String, dynamic>. Check the source code:
factory Uri(
{String scheme,
String userInfo,
String host,
int port,
String path,
Iterable<String> pathSegments,
String query,
Map<String, dynamic /*String|Iterable<String>*/ > queryParameters,
String fragment}) = _Uri;
The dynamic can be either a String or an Iterable<String>. So,
var uri = Uri(
scheme: 'http',
host: 'www.myurl.com',
path: '/api/query/',
queryParameters: {
'array': ['value1', 'value2', 'value3'],
},
);
print(uri);
prints:
http://www.myurl.com/api/query/?array=value1&array=value2&array=value3