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1 | using System; | |
2 | using System.Collections.Generic; | |
3 | using System.Linq; | |
4 | using System.Text; | |
5 | using System.Net; | |
6 | using System.Xml.Linq; | |
7 | using System.IO; | |
8 | ||
9 | - | namespace ConsoleApplication1 |
9 | + | namespace APIHelper |
10 | { | |
11 | public static class APITool | |
12 | { | |
13 | /// <summary> | |
14 | /// Generic utility method to build a query string from a dictionary | |
15 | /// </summary> | |
16 | /// <typeparam name="TKey">Query string variable to be assigned a value</typeparam> | |
17 | /// <typeparam name="TValue">Query string value to be assigned to the key</typeparam> | |
18 | /// <param name="dict">Dictionary<TKey, TValue> to be passed to the program</param> | |
19 | /// <returns>Returns a completed query string, in the form key1=value1&key2=value2</returns> | |
20 | public static string BuildQueryString<TKey,TValue>(Dictionary<TKey, TValue> dict) | |
21 | { | |
22 | //empty query string | |
23 | string queryString = ""; | |
24 | //loop over a key:value pair (hashtable, dict, etc) and build a query string | |
25 | foreach (KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue> d in dict) | |
26 | { | |
27 | queryString += d.Key + "=" + d.Value + "&"; | |
28 | } | |
29 | //Remove trailing & character | |
30 | return queryString.Substring(0,queryString.Length-1); | |
31 | } | |
32 | ||
33 | /// <summary> | |
34 | /// Sends a GET request to the URI passed to the constructor. | |
35 | /// </summary> | |
36 | /// <param name="queryString">Accepts an optional parameter, queryString, which contains a query string of values</param> | |
37 | /// <returns>Returns a response from the webserver as a string</returns> | |
38 | public static string GET(string uri, string queryString=null) | |
39 | { | |
40 | WebClient getRequest = new WebClient(); | |
41 | return getRequest.DownloadString(new Uri(uri + "?" + queryString)); | |
42 | } | |
43 | ||
44 | /// <summary> | |
45 | /// Sends a POST request to the URI passed to the constructor | |
46 | /// </summary> | |
47 | /// <param name="queryString">Accepts optional parameter, queryString, containing a query string to be sent to server</param> | |
48 | /// <returns>Returns response from webserver as a string</returns> | |
49 | public static string POST(string uri, string queryString = null) | |
50 | { | |
51 | //New HTTP Request to the URI | |
52 | HttpWebRequest postRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri(uri)); | |
53 | //Response from server | |
54 | string response; | |
55 | ||
56 | //Convert query string to UTF-8 | |
57 | byte[] data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(queryString); | |
58 | ||
59 | //Set up headers of post request | |
60 | - | Stream stream = postRequest.GetRequestStream(); |
60 | + | |
61 | - | stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length); |
61 | + | |
62 | - | stream.Close(); |
62 | + | |
63 | //Open a stream to write the data | |
64 | using (Stream stream = postRequest.GetRequestStream()) | |
65 | - | HttpWebResponse HTTPResponse = (HttpWebResponse)postRequest.GetResponse(); |
65 | + | |
66 | - | stream = HTTPResponse.GetResponseStream(); |
66 | + | stream.Write(data, 0, data.Length); |
67 | - | StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream); |
67 | + | |
68 | - | string response = reader.ReadToEnd(); |
68 | + | |
69 | using (HttpWebResponse HTTPResponse = (HttpWebResponse)postRequest.GetResponse()) | |
70 | - | //Clean up streams |
70 | + | using (Stream stream = HTTPResponse.GetResponseStream()) |
71 | - | reader.Close(); |
71 | + | using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream)) |
72 | - | stream.Close(); |
72 | + | |
73 | - | HTTPResponse.Close(); |
73 | + | response = reader.ReadToEnd(); |
74 | } | |
75 | ||
76 | return response; | |
77 | ||
78 | ||
79 | } | |
80 | ||
81 | } | |
82 | } |