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Sarlango
Sarlango

Reputation: 41

How to update options in Restsharp v107 (RestClientOptoins)

I'm not finding any RestClient method to update its options, what I need to do is for example disable FollowRedirects for certain requests. How do I do the following but with v107?

client.FollowRedirects = false;

Background: maybe a separate issue but current problem is that RestSharp is not following a redirect URL to Okta from a Location header of a response, it goes to the main Client URL instead. That is why I've decided to disable redirects to try following the redirect manually.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8685

Answers (1)

Alexey Zimarev
Alexey Zimarev

Reputation: 19590

Most if not all of the properties in RestClientOptions are used to configure the HttpMessageHandler instance wrapped by RestClient. As each RestClient instance wraps a single HttpClient (and its handler), those options cannot be changed. It works the same way as configuring HttpClient, where you cannot change the AllowAutoRedirects property of the handler once it's configured.

That's why the documentation suggests using a specifically configured RestClient instance per remote API. Normally, the API uses a single convention and configuration requirement.

I have seen that some authentication endpoints require redirects, but most of the time the RestClient instance used to get the authorization token is not the one used to access the API itself with the retrieved token. So, the solution would be to have a separate instance for that purpose. Normally, it's only used once to get the token, then you can dispose it and reuse the token.

I keep posting the authenticator example from the docs https://restsharp.dev/usage.html#authenticator

Concerning RestSharp not following redirects properly, it's not what RestSharp does as it doesn't compose or execute HTTP calls physically. It just wraps HttpClient.

Upvotes: 0

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