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PositiveGuy
PositiveGuy

Reputation: 47733

WCF to consume other REST Services?

I'm trying to figure out if the best way to consume and use a 3rd party API that is REST is to use WCF or just use System.Runtime.Serialization.Json Namespace or the WebClient object in .NET and create my own methods to send and receive json objects to and from the REST service I'm consuming.

So far I've only seen consuming REST json of an existing WCF service. Can you use WCF to consume and work with (request/response) any json based REST service outside of .NET?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1403

Answers (1)

bloudraak
bloudraak

Reputation: 6002

Yes, you can consume Flickr services using WCF as described here. You just need to change the ResponseFormat in the WebGet (and WebInvoke) attributes to be Json.

However, my experience is that it is rather painful when you deal with stuff like error handling or complex authentication schemes. I found it simpler to manually write the client using the WebRequest class.

Upvotes: 1

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