I am learning how to consume a webhook in ASP.Net MVC solution, the webhook can be from OneDrive, GitHub or Twilio (or anyone), but I am not able to find even a basic example of consuming webhooks. I tried different keyword and searched the web but I haven't found a basic tutorial for this.
I am willing to put the controller code of my MVC Project but I don't know how to consume webhooks.
I did my research and I could not find any basic example for consuming webhooks. I am starting to wonder is there any synonym terms for webhooks I should be entering into a search engine?
Links I looked into: VS Hooks
To listen a webhook you basically need a controller with some method that allows HttpPost request. The system who fires the webhook must have some doc/config to know method name and params. Usually you need a DNS or public ip to get the request
#Mate already answered this using example from https://ngrok.com/
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I'm developing a website in C# MVC including WEB API. When an API URL in my project is called from an external system, I want to show a message (not a push message, only show a text in a div) in one of my view that the API function is executing.Is this possible?
First Of All its possible yes,
you need To use SignalR To notify the Views:
YouTube totrual Here
Github : Here
Then You use the Signal R to push a Notification when a cross origin request happen
using action filters
the signalR subscribers can be view pages using Jquery.
SignalR on Client
full exmaple :here
Yes it is posssible. One (pretty easy) way is to use the awesome SignalR or SignalR core framework. Check this for differences. Real-time web functionality enables server-side code to push content to clients instantly.
Basically you will create a Hub on the server that clients connect to. In your WebApi method, you can then call the client method. Then in the client you will use javascript to respond to the server call and then you will set the div content from this method.
See the docs.
Hope it helps!
I think Signal R is best choise too. But maybe you want to another alternative. You can look at Node Js.
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I have made a new project using the ASP.NET Web Application template in Visual Studio 2015. Then I selected MVC and Individual User Accounts to specify the template further. The solution I got is complete in that it offers me all the web pages you need for account management such as registering and logging in.
However, now I want to hook in a Xamarin.Forms mobile client to this account management scheme. I am making a native UI to register users, instead of redirecting them to a webpage or webview. I want to send user registration data, such as username and password, from this UI to the server so it will create an account. This means that I don't want to use the webpages offered by my MVC app, but rather send the registration data to the server and have it create an account, notfifying me of succes or failure.
I am anticipating that I would need to either use HTTP POSTs to login and registration endpoints in the AccountController or implement a public API. However, doing a post will return a webpage, and my client is not interested in a webpage.
I think one of the above should be possible to implement quite easily, but I am having a hard time searching for answers or methods, since I don't know how to phrase my problem properly, and with the abundance of guides on MVC, all my results are muddied.
Is my idea of this being possible flawed or have I missed a fundamental concept of MVC? What are the steps I should take in order to make this possible?
One misconception is that doing a POST will return a webpage. You can return any type of content from an MVC controller. But your account registration endpoints should be Web API controllers that return JSON. That JSON can be as simple as containing a boolean that indicates if the action was successful or not.
You do not need to use MVC at all. You can completely do away with the account controllers and views that the template created for you. Just copy the code that you need from the MVC controllers into your Web API methods.
You're right, this is quite easy to do.
I think, You can use ASP.NET Web API for doing this task. On server, you host your API for registering the users as well as logging into some client application.
Now, You need to consume this API in a client application. The client application could be a Console application, Windows application or a Web application. There are lots of tutorials about making an Web API on official ASP.NET site.
I'd like to capture webhooks from GitHub (for various events, like commits, etc), from my C# console application. I figured I could "listen" to an endpoint and webhooks would be thrown there, but it seems that perhaps github is actually sending webhooks to endpoints that you need to setup and listen from.
If the latter is this case, then I suppose I'll need to setup a web server to capture the webhooks. If the former is the case, then I'm not finding in the docs how I can listen for webhooks from GitHub?
Your question isn't very clear, but I think you're on the right track vis-a-vis implementing a web server. So, my answer to your question is: you need to implement a web server to receive the webhook requests.
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At the bottom of this document, you will find instructions on how to implement a very simple web server (in Ruby) to receive GitLab webhook requests. I know this isn't a turnkey solution for you, but hopefully it will help get you going.
Hey I'm looking for some tutorials on how to consume an external Web API in ASP.NET MVC or if someone could explain briefly on how to go about it,specifically the https://platform.fatsecret.com/api/
You should check out RestSharp . It makes it very easy to consume an external API in your .NET application, since you can control how the API-response (JSON or XML) is deserialized to your model classes.
You can refer to the websites REST API Documentation on everything you need to include in your requests to their server. Here is an example of a method https://platform.fatsecret.com/api/Default.aspx?screen=rapiref&method=food.get
It breaks it down into what is required to be in your request and what you are to expect to see returned.
As for actual code, you have a few options. You can refer to Microsoft Docs in order to learn how to actually craft, send and receive requests to a REST API. The example shown uses the asp.net client Nuget package. It provides an object which allows you to easily create and receive requests.
Personaly, I like to practice with Postman for Chrome first. It allows you to easily create and receive REST data and even has an option to create template code from your request into multiple languages!
I've got a simple thing to do - implement the login form. My employer wants me to use Web forms and my stubborn ass want's to implement the MVC pattern (I already have). The problem is I have no idea how to instantiate the Controller. I run debugging, get the view, but since there is no controller (or model), nothing happens when I click login since no one can respond to the event.
Where and how can I instantiate the Controller?
Yes, you certainly can.
I quote:
"As of 2014, the official answer to this problem is using Web API, as explained in this article I wrote for Simple Talk about a year ago.
Integrating a Web API layer into a Web Forms application couldn’t be easier. You just plug in the Web API runtime, configure routing so that you decide exactly which URLs you want to support and start writing your controller classes in the App_Code folder. Web API follows nearly the same programming model as ASP.NET MVC and is really easy to learn. In the end, it’s just like writing controller classes equipped with public methods callable from JavaScript clients.
ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC share the same runtime environment and requests are routed through exactly the same pipeline. It is even acceptable to say that ASP.NET MVC is just a global HTTP handler installed on the ASP.NET request pipeline. If the incoming request matches the URL requirements supported by the MVC handler then the request is routed to it; otherwise it is processed by the runtime as usual. “As usual” here means just as if it would go in a plain Web Forms application."
Here is the source of my above quoted information. I suggest you give this a read, as this is very useful and will give you a good understanding of the differences between both MVC and WebForms, and how can mix the architectures.