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How to convert response of post request to bool in c#?

I have an endpoint in my ASP.NET Core 2.1 Controller
[HttpPost]
public async Task<bool> CheckStatus([FromBody] StatusModel model)
{
...code ommited
return true;
}
And I call this endpoint from other place in code like this:
await client.PostAsync('/CheckStatus', payloayd)
How can I retrive a bool value from this request?

Using Newtonsoft.Json, you can read the response of the request and parse it into a bool.
using Newtonsoft.Json;
public async Task<bool> GetBooleanAsync()
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
var data = new { };
var url = "my site url";
var payload = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data), Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
var req = await client.PostAsync(url, payload);
var response = await req.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<bool>(response);
}
}
UPDATE
Looking back on this from a few years on, this can be simplified without the use of Newtonsoft.Json to read the response, by simply parsing the string data to a boolean.
public async Task<bool> GetBooleanAsync()
{
var data = new { };
var url = "my site url";
var payload = new StringContent(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data), Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
using var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.PostAsync(url, payload);
var data = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
return boolean.Parse(data);
}
However, if your boolean value is returned in a JSON object, then Newtonsoft.Json could be used to read that value.

how to get API response it in asp.net c#

i have the following API json request
"myjsonrequest": {
"ServiceKey": "Hello",
"Identityvals": {
"IDName": "regnum",
"IDValue": "112233"
}
}
any simple way to get the response , im using ASP.net c#
i tried this code
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
string x = "{'IDName','regnum'},{'IDValue','112233'}";
var Keys = new Dictionary<string, string>
{
{ "ServiceKey", "hello" },
{ "PractitionerIdentity",x}
};
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(Keys);
var response = await client.PostAsync("https://apiurl", content);
var responseval = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

Try this :
var json = new {
ServiceKey = "",
PractitionerIdentity = new {
IDName = "" ,
IDValue = ""
}
};
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
var content = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json")
var response = await client.PostAsync("https://apiurl", content);

Your Json data should be saved to a model in the following way:
public class YourJsonData{
public string ServiceKey {get; set;}
//add other names
}
The best thing about this is that if you call your object, you get a variable back for easy usage.
then you can add it in a task:
public async Task<List<YourJsonData>> GetJsonAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
//Make the request, and ensure we can reach it
var response = await client.GetAsync(yourJosnUrl, cancellationToken);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
//Read the actual stream (download the content)
var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
//Make sure we do have some valid content before we try to deserialize it
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(content))
{
return new List<YourJsonData>();
}
//Deserialize into a list of yourjsondata
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<YourJsonData>>(content);
}
}
return new List<YourJsonData>();
}
also if you are lazy, you can replace YourJsonData with dynamic. the downpart here is that you won't be able to see what you are revering to.

HttpClient send null POST data

Well... I read A LOT of questions here in StackOverflow, but still didn't get answer for it, I have this Web API controller:
public class ERSController : ApiController
{
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage Get()
{
var resposne = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
resposne.Content = new StringContent("test OK");
return resposne;
}
[HttpPost]
public HttpResponseMessage Post([FromUri]string ID,[FromBody] string Data)
{
var resposne = new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
//Some actions with database
resposne.Content = new StringContent("Added");
return resposne;
}
}
and I wrote a small tester to it:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:54916/");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
var content = new StringContent("<data>Hello</data>", Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
var response = client.PostAsync("api/ERS?ID=123", content);
response.ContinueWith(p =>
{
string result = p.Result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
Console.WriteLine(result);
});
Console.ReadKey();
}
I always get NULL on the parameter Data in the API.
I tried adding those lines to the tester:
client.DefaultRequestHeaders
.Accept
.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
still NULL, I also replace the content with:
var values = new Dictionary<string, string>();
values.Add("Data", "Data");
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(values);
still NULL.
I tried switching the request to:
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
var values = new NameValueCollection();
values["Data"] = "hello";
var task = client.UploadValuesTaskAsync("http://localhost:54916/api/ERS?ID=123", values);
task.ContinueWith((p) =>
{
string response = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(p.Result);
Console.WriteLine(response);
});
but debugger still saying 'NO!' the Data is still NULL.
I do get the ID with no problem.

If you want to send it as a JSON string, you should do this (using Newtonsoft.Json):
var serialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject("Hello");
var content = new StringContent(serialized, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
You almost got it right with FormUrlEncodedContent, what you had to do was send it with an empty name, like in this example:
var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
{
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("", "Hello")
});
var response = client.PostAsync("api/ERS?ID=123", content);

Using a token to search on Twitter with OAuth2

Before Twitter switched to OAuth2, I was using the following query:
string atomTweetSearchURL = string.Format("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={0}", searchText);
This no longer works, so now I'm trying to switch to OAuth2. I manage to successfully retrieve a token, but once I've got this, I seem to be unable to actually perform the search. Here's the latest incarnation of what I've tried:
var searchUrl = string.Format("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q={0}&access_token={1}&token_type={2}", srchStr, twitAuthResponse.access_token, twitAuthResponse.token_type);
WebRequest srchRequest = WebRequest.Create(searchUrl);
using (var response2 = await srchRequest.GetResponseAsync())
{
Stream stream = response2.GetResponseStream();
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(stream))
{
string jsonResponse = await sr.ReadToEndAsync();
}
}
This gives me a 400 - bad request.
I've also tried building the request like this:
System.Net.Http.HttpClient srchRequest = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient();
string authHdr = string.Format(srchHeaderFormat, twitAuthResponse.token_type, twitAuthResponse.access_token);
srchRequest.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", authHdr);
There's a massive quantity of articles out there detailing how to do this, but none of them seem to work correctly with WinRT. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
EDIT
Here's my code to get the token:
var oAuthConsumerKey = key;
var oAuthConsumerSecret = secret;
var oAuthUri = new Uri("https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token");
var authHeaderFormat = "Basic {0}";
var authHeader = string.Format(authHeaderFormat,
Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Uri.EscapeDataString(oAuthConsumerKey)
+ ":" +
Uri.EscapeDataString((oAuthConsumerSecret)))
));
var req = new HttpClient();
req.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", authHeader);
HttpRequestMessage msg = new HttpRequestMessage(new HttpMethod("POST"), oAuthUri);
msg.Content = new HttpStringContent("grant_type=client_credentials");
msg.Content.Headers.ContentType = new Windows.Web.Http.Headers.HttpMediaTypeHeaderValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
HttpResponseMessage response = await req.SendRequestAsync(msg);
TwitAuthenticateResponse twitAuthResponse;
using (response)
{
string objectText = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
twitAuthResponse = JSonSerialiserHelper.Deserialize<TwitAuthenticateResponse>(objectText);
}

With the 1.1 API you don't pass the access token as part of the url, you need to include it as the Authorization header as "Bearer access_token" so you were almost there!
EDIT
To do this in the Windows.Web.Http namespace the following works:
private static async Task SearchTweets(AuthenticationResponse twitAuthResponse)
{
string srchStr = "tweet";
var client = new HttpClient();
var searchUrl = string.Format("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q={0}", srchStr);
var uri = new Uri(searchUrl);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new HttpCredentialsHeaderValue("Bearer", twitAuthResponse.AccessToken);
var response2 = await client.GetAsync(uri);
string content = await response2.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
}
Or with System.Net.Http use the following:
This code will run the search for srchStr using the access token you already acquired as you showed in the first example:
var client = new HttpClient();
var searchUrl = string.Format("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q={0}", srchStr);
var uri = new Uri(searchUrl);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", string.Format("Bearer {0}", twitAuthResponse.access_token));
HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
Task<string> content = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
EDIT
This is a strange one, I tested your code and you're right it does throw an exception when attempting to add the Auth header, however the code I had used for grabbing the Access Token is almost identical but uses the System.Net.Http methods rather than the Windows.Web.Http ones that you use and it works, so I'll provide my code here, maybe this is a bug in the framework, or someone else can provide some more insight! This also uses the JSON.NET library which can be found on NuGet.
private static async Task SearchTweets(AuthenticationResponse twitAuthResponse)
{
string srchStr = "tweet";
var client = new HttpClient();
var searchUrl = string.Format("https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q={0}", srchStr);
var uri = new Uri(searchUrl);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", string.Format("Bearer {0}", twitAuthResponse.AccessToken));
HttpResponseMessage response2 = await client.GetAsync(uri);
string content = await response2.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
}
private async void GetAuthenticationToken()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var uri = new Uri("https://api.twitter.com/oauth2/token");
var encodedConsumerKey = WebUtility.UrlEncode(TwitterConsumerKey);
var encodedConsumerSecret = WebUtility.UrlEncode(TwitterConsumerSecret);
var combinedKeys = String.Format("{0}:{1}", encodedConsumerKey, encodedConsumerSecret);
var utfBytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(combinedKeys);
var encodedString = Convert.ToBase64String(utfBytes);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", string.Format("Basic {0}", encodedString));
var data = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>
{
new KeyValuePair<string, string>("grant_type", "client_credentials")
};
var postData = new FormUrlEncodedContent(data);
var response = await client.PostAsync(uri, postData);
AuthenticationResponse authenticationResponse;
using (response)
{
if (response.StatusCode != System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK)
throw new Exception("Did not work!");
var content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
authenticationResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<AuthenticationResponse>(content);
if (authenticationResponse.TokenType != "bearer")
throw new Exception("wrong result type");
}
await SearchTweets(authenticationResponse);
}
}
class AuthenticationResponse
{
[JsonProperty("token_type")]
public string TokenType { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("access_token")]
public string AccessToken { get; set; }
}

Retrieving Response Body from HTTP POST

I'm POSTing to API that is returning a 409 response code along with a response body that looks like this:
{
"message": "Exception thrown.",
"errorDescription": "Object does not exist"
}
How can I pull out the Response Body and deserialize it?
I am using HttpClient:
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:60129");
var model = new Inspection
{
CategoryId = 1,
InspectionId = 0,
Descriptor1 = "test descriptor 121212",
Name = "my inspection 1121212"
};
var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var json = serializer.Serialize(model);
var stringContent = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
var result = client.PostAsync("api/Inspections/UpdateInspection", stringContent);
var r = result.Result;
I seems like such a common thing to do, but I'm struggling to find where the data is in my result.

You can use ReadAsAsync<T> on the content of the response to a concrete type or ReadAsStringAsync to get the raw JSON string.
Would also suggest using Json.Net for working with the JSON.
var response = await client.PostAsync("api/Inspections/UpdateInspection", stringContent);
var json = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
A concrete response model can be created
public class ErrorBody {
public string message { get; set; }
public string errorDescription { get; set; }
}
and used to read responses that are not successful.
var response = await client.PostAsync("api/Inspections/UpdateInspection", stringContent);
if(response.IsSuccessStatusCode) {
//...
} else {
var error = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<ErrorBody>();
//...do something with error.
}