I am using Flutter to load an "asset" into a File
so that a native application can access it.
This is how I load the asset:
final dbBytes = await rootBundle.load('assets/file');
This returns an instance of ByteData
.
How can I write this to a dart.io.File
instance?
ByteData
is an abstraction for:
A fixed-length, random-access sequence of bytes that also provides
random and unaligned access to the fixed-width integers and floating
point numbers represented by those bytes.
As Gunter mentioned in the comments, you can use File.writeAsBytes
. It does require a bit of API work to get from ByteData
to a List<int>
, however.
import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:io';
import 'dart:typed_data';
Future<void> writeToFile(ByteData data, String path) {
final buffer = data.buffer;
return new File(path).writeAsBytes(
buffer.asUint8List(data.offsetInBytes, data.lengthInBytes));
}
I've also filed an issue to make the docs on Flutter more clear for this use case.