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clement
clement

Reputation: 4266

Xamarin and cross-platform webservice access + json parsing

I'm searching for a way to retrieve data (formatted in json) from an API and parse them.

I really want to use the code both for android and for IOS. I already saw examples but they didn't work for both platforms.

If you can provide me examples for connection, retrieving and for json, it is the best for me because I didn't find great docs about cross-platform (quite simple) implementation.

Comments Welcome !

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5660

Answers (2)

sjokkogutten
sjokkogutten

Reputation: 2095

Instead of using nuget to download Newtonsoft, you need to download it from here:http://components.xamarin.com/view/json.net/

Upvotes: 1

Sten Petrov
Sten Petrov

Reputation: 11040

I've used Newtonsoft's json library in a monotouch solution

Find the source code here.

As far as retrieving the data - that depends on your API, I suspect it's a web API with HTTP calls? If that's the case you can further elaborate on this, obviously exception handling and threading is up to you:

 HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create (url);
...
 request.BeginGetResponse ((r) =>
 {
     string res = null;
     using (StreamReader srd = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) {
         res = srd.ReadToEnd ();
     }
     T jres = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T> (res);
 }, null);

Upvotes: 4

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