Utf8 decoding error.

[roipeker]

No clue what to do... lib seems very unreliable. I'm running a
INSERT IGNORE INTO product () VALUES ()
for 8000 records... it fails using connection::query(), works fine in queryMulti(), so i thought it would be the length of the query string... my sweet spot was 315 records at a time in a single query... max query length at 39100 characters. Otherwise, same exception.

After truncate the product table, i was able to run the query() with the 8k products without errors... I just don't understand how the buffer.readString() gets corrupted on particular cases.
This is the exception:

[SEVERE] FormatException: Bad UTF-8 encoding 0xb8 (at offset 0) #0      _Utf8Decoder.convert (dart:convert/utf.dart:530:13)
#1      Utf8Decoder.convert (dart:convert/utf.dart:327:13)
#2      Utf8Codec.decode (dart:convert/utf.dart:59:56)
#3      Buffer.readString (package:mysql1/src/buffer.dart:178:21)
#4      Buffer.readStringToEnd (package:mysql1/src/buffer.dart:172:31)
#5      new OkPacket (package:mysql1/src/handlers/ok_packet.dart:21:23)
#6      Handler.checkResponse (package:mysql1/src/handlers/handler.dart:80:28)
#7      QueryStreamHandler.processResponse (package:mysql1/src/query/query_stream_handler.dart:49:18)
#8      ReqRespConnection._handleData (package:mysql1/src/single_connection.dart:329:31)### 

Right after posting the issue... I saw that utf8.decode() has a malformed param. Seems to fix the error:

// buffer.dart (line 178)
String s = utf8.decode(_list.sublist(_readPos, _readPos + length),allowMalformed: true);

Please, keep updating the package... is currently the only solution available for Dart.

[adamlofts]

The docs don't mention the encoding of this field so it is possible that we should not be trying to decode utf at all.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/describing-packets.html#type-string.EOF

This field is only used for display so I think your fix is fine. Please submit a PR.