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Isaac Levin
Isaac Levin

Reputation: 2909

Best way to call Webservice via Get

I am calling a 3rd party API that I access with an HTTP Get. I have a working example to call this API using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse and it works fine. I wanted to make sure this is best practice, or should I be using something else. This is not a Web solution so it does not have MVC/Web Api references built in. Here is some sample code

     protected WebResponse executeGet(string endpoint, Dictionary<string, string> parameters, bool skipEncode = false)
    {
        string urlPath = this.baseURL + endpoint + "?" +
                         createEncodedString(parameters, skipEncode);
        Console.WriteLine("Sending to: " + urlPath);
        HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(urlPath);
        req.Method = "GET";
        return req.GetResponse();
    }

Is this the preferred way to call Get Apis?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1957

Answers (1)

Arin
Arin

Reputation: 1393

While I know SO discourages "best-practice" questions, the "Microsoft recommended" way I've seen WebAPIs called is using HttpClient in the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client NuGet package. Besides Windows and web projects, this package is supported for Windows Phone and Windows Store projects too.

Here's what their sample GET code looks like:

using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
    client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:9000/");
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
    client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

    HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("api/products/1");
    if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
        Product product = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<Product>();
        Console.WriteLine("{0}\t${1}\t{2}", product.Name, product.Price, product.Category);
    }
}

FMI, see Calling a Web API From a .NET Client in ASP.NET Web API 2 (C#)

Upvotes: 1

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