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Sam
Sam

Reputation: 30388

Trying to read response from Web API call

I'm trying to read my employees list from a Web API call but getting errors.

using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
   client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://myApiUrl");
   client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
   client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

   HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("api/hr/employees");
   if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
   {
      List<Employee> employees = response.Content.ReadAsAsync(IEnumerable<Employee>).Result;
   }
}

The error I'm currently getting is: System.Net.Http.HttpContent does not contain a definition for ReadAsAsync...

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2381

Answers (2)

Karabo Maragelo
Karabo Maragelo

Reputation: 1

Try 

List<Employee> employees = response.Content.ReadAsAsync<IEnumerable<Employee>>().Result;

Upvotes: 0

MartinM
MartinM

Reputation: 1806

ReadAsAsync is not a method on the HttpClient class. If you want to read the data and cast it to an object you can use:

HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("api/hr/employees");
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
    var result= await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
    List<Employee> employees = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Employee>(result);
}

Upvotes: 3

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