Background
There are numerous ways to consume REST API in C#. Starting with HttpClient, WebClient, HTTPWebRequest and Third-Party API. On this post, I will show you how to consume REST API in an easy way with C#.
Requirements
For this lab we use:
Let's get started
#1 Creating a project with Visual Studio 2019
- we created two projects the first one is Class Library and the second one is Console App. It used .NET Framework 4.7.2.
- we downloaded two Nuget package: Newtonsoft JSON and RestSharp for the Class Library project
#2 Composing Classes for our REST objects
The REST API will be consumed as an object. Therefore, we created several classes and enumeration
#3 Creating Class that Consumes the REST API
We created a class that has a method to consume REST API. We deserialize the REST API as shown below. We read the content and save the result into Zodiacresult Class. Please note we use DeserializeObject (from newtonsoft) and RestClient (from restsharp).
#4 Creating Class that Display the REST API
We created a console app that consume the library. The REST API has a nested result. Therefore, the Zodiacresult contains an array namely Meta object. We consume the Meta object and accessing through their properties.
#5 Testing the result
Lets push the F5 button and you can see, we can consume the rest API easily in dotnet.
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