From f93c76fabdb03963303762e3fe16cbdf60799cff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guy Luz <guyluz11@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 01:08:40 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Throw more specific exception for a request on a close
 IOClient (#584)

Closes #581
---
 CHANGELOG.md           | 2 ++
 lib/src/io_client.dart | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ab8a02203c..08a3a0b011 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ## 0.13.4-dev
 
+* Throw a more useful error when a client is used after it has been closed.
+
 ## 0.13.3
 
 * Validate that the `method` parameter of BaseRequest is a valid "token".
diff --git a/lib/src/io_client.dart b/lib/src/io_client.dart
index 5ee66db0f8..85d3681861 100644
--- a/lib/src/io_client.dart
+++ b/lib/src/io_client.dart
@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ class IOClient extends BaseClient {
   /// Sends an HTTP request and asynchronously returns the response.
   @override
   Future<IOStreamedResponse> send(BaseRequest request) async {
+    if (_inner == null) {
+      throw ClientException(
+          'HTTP request failed. Client is already closed.', request.url);
+    }
+
     var stream = request.finalize();
 
     try {