TheProcessE.RestClient 1.0.0

Rest-Client

A simple HttpClient for making http requests

Supported HTTP METHODS

• GET
• POST
• PUT
• DELETE

Supported HTTP request Data

• BODY
• HEADER/HEADERS

How To Use

1 - Create an Interface with your request methods

2 - Add a URL attribute to your interface with the base-url

3 - Mark the methods with correct HttpMethod using (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)

4 - Mark the parameters as Header or BODY using the Header or BODY attribute

5 - Mark the return type of your method as a Task<Response> or Response

6 - Call the GetService method of the RestService class with your type as parameter

7 - All done !! you may now make http calls

Target FrameWork

.NETFramework4.7.2

Test Example getting the posts from json placeholder

Example of Service Interface

  [URL(@"https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com")]
  public interface IExampleInterface
  {
      [GET("posts")]
      Task<Response> Posts();

      [GET("todos")]
      Response Todos();

      [GET("users")]
      Task<Response> Users();
  }

Example of post class

  class Post
  {
      public int UserId { get; set; }
      public int Id { get; set; }
      public string Title { get; set; }
      public string body { get; set; }
  }

Instantiating a new Service of your given type

  // Create a new RestService of type IExampleInterface
  var testService = RestService.GetService<IExampleInterface>();

Getting the posts

// if not using async mark the method return type as Response
// or use var response = testService.Posts().Result;
var response = await testService.Posts();
var posts = response.GetResponse<Post[]>();

Console.WriteLine($"First Post: {posts[0].Title}");
Console.Read();

Author

Pascal Nsunba

License

MIT LICENSE