What is Rest Sharp?

What is restsharp

The acronym REST stands for Representational State Transfer, this basically means that each unique URL is a representation of some object.
It is way of making a web request to web service.

Features

We can do GET, PUT, HEAD, POST, DELETE and OPTIONS

How to get started

Install a nuget package by typing restsharp

It will add reference

What is the use?
It is used to call api which support REST protocol.

Code
Web api 2 return json output

Get Calling code for 

var apiUrl = @"http://localhost:8076/api/MyApi";

            var client = new RestClient(apiUrl);

            var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);

            request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");

            var result = client.Execute(request).Content;

            var finalResult = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Student>>(result);

Full Code

Student.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

namespace RestSharpEx.Models

{

    public class Student

    {

        public int StudentId { get; set; }

        public string Name { get; set; }

    }

}

MyController.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Net.Http;

using System.Web.Http;

using RestSharpEx.Models;

namespace RestSharpEx.Controllers

{

    public class MyApiController : ApiController

    {

        public IHttpActionResult Get() {

            var models = new List<Student>() {

                new Student(){ StudentId=1,Name="Student1"},

                new Student(){ StudentId=2,Name="Student2"},

                new Student(){ StudentId=3,Name="Student3"},

            };

            return Ok(models);

        }

    }

}

Mvc - HomeController.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Mvc;

using Newtonsoft.Json;

using RestSharp;

using RestSharpEx.Models;

namespace RestSharpEx.Controllers

{

    public class HomeController : Controller

    {

        public ActionResult Index()

        {

            var apiUrl = @"http://localhost:8076/api/MyApi";

            var client = new RestClient(apiUrl);

            var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);

            request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");

            var result = client.Execute(request).Content;

            var finalResult = JsonConvert

              .DeserializeObject<List<Student>>(result);

            return View();

        }

        public ActionResult About()

        {

            ViewBag.Message = "Your application description page.";

            return View();

        }

        public ActionResult Contact()

        {

            ViewBag.Message = "Your contact page.";

            return View();

        }

    }

}

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