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drzaus
drzaus

Reputation: 25004

RestSharp send Dictionary

I've seen how to deserialize a dictionary from the response, but how do you send one?

var d = new Dictionary<string, object> {
    { "foo", "bar" },
    { "bar", 12345 },
    { "jello", new { qux = "fuum", lorem = "ipsum" } }
};

var r = new RestRequest(url, method);
r.AddBody(d); // <-- how?

var response = new RestClient(baseurl).Execute(r);

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4364

Answers (2)

drzaus
drzaus

Reputation: 25004

Ugh...it was something else screwing up my case. As @Chase said, it's pretty simple:

var c = new RestClient(baseurl);
var r = new RestRequest(url, Method.POST);  // <-- must specify a Method that has a body

// shorthand
r.AddJsonBody(dictionary);

// longhand
r.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
r.AddBody(d);

var response = c.Execute(r); // <-- confirmed*

Didn't need to wrap the dictionary as another object.

(*) confirmed that it sent expected JSON with an echo service like Fiddler, or RestSharp's SimpleServer

Upvotes: 4

ivamax9
ivamax9

Reputation: 2629

Try to do it something like this, it's my example of simple post with some stuff for you, I prefer use RestSharp in this style because it's much cleaner then other variants of using it:

var myDict = new Dictionary<string, object> {
  { "foo", "bar" },
  { "bar", 12345 },
  { "jello", new { qux = "fuum", lorem = "ipsum" } }
};
var client = new RestClient("domain name, for example http://localhost:12345");
var request = new RestRequest("part of url, for example /Home/Index", Method.POST);
request.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json;
request.AddBody(new { dict = myDict }); // <-- your possible answer
client.Execute(request);

And for this example endpoint should have dict parameter in declaration.

Upvotes: 1

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