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Requests POST with Bearer token in ASP.NET

I've an API secured by Bearer token to be consumed in a MVC project. I want to take the values to send from a text file every time a text file is created in a Windows folder, I used fileSystemWatcher to monitor the folder and I use a routine to read the lines from the new text file. I'm stuck creating a new record in a Business Central customer table.
namespace MonitorChanges
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
string Path = #"D:\...", Ruta;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
fileSystemWatcher1.Path = Path;
GetFiles();
}
public void GetFiles()
{
string[] lst = Directory.GetFiles(Path);
textBox1.Text = "";
foreach(var sFile in lst)
{
textBox1.Text += sFile + Environment.NewLine;
Ruta = sFile;
}
}
private void fileSystemWatcher1_Changed(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
}
private async void fileSystemWatcher1_Created(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
{
GetFiles();
await GetToken(GetRuta());
}
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
private string GetRuta()
{
return Ruta;
}
static async Task GetToken(string ruta)
{
string ClientId = "2825017b...";
string ClientSecret = "cGO8Q~...";
string TenantId = "36393c6b...";
string URL = "https://login.microsoftonline.com/" + TenantId + "/oauth2/v2.0/token";
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
var content = new StringContent("grant_type = client_credentials" +
"&scope=https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/.default" +
"&client_id=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(ClientId) +
"&client_secret=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(ClientSecret));
content.Headers.ContentType = new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
var response = await client.PostAsync(URL, content);
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
JObject Result = JObject.Parse(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
string BearerToken = Result["access_token"].ToString();
string URL2 = "https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/36393c6b.../Production/ODataV4/Company('CRONUS%20MX')/VistaClientes";
HttpClient testclient = new HttpClient();
testclient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + BearerToken);
var result = await testclient.GetAsync(URL2);
if (result.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
MessageBox.Show(await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
List<Record> records = new List<Record>();
List<string> rows = File.ReadAllLines(ruta).ToList();
foreach (var row in rows)
{
string[] entries = row.Split(',');
//I consider entering the code here to send the values to the exposed page of Business Central
}
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show(result.StatusCode.ToString());
}
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show(response.StatusCode.ToString());
}
}
}
}
I've tried this
var newClient = "{\"Name\": " + entries[0] + ",\"Name_2\": " + entries[1] + ",\"Location_Code\": " + entries[2] + ",\"Post_Code\": " + entries[3] + ",\"Country_Region_Code\": " + entries[4] + ",\"Phone_Code\": " + entries[5] + "}";
HttpContent dataHttpContent = new StringContent(newClient, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
var dataResponse = await testclient.PostAsync(URL2, dataHttpContent);
MessageBox.Show(await dataResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
I get this error
Post request error

Pause loop until download event is complete

How can I pause the loop in someRandomMethod() until the code in DownloadCompleted() have been executed? This code below only unpacks the latest version in the versions array. It's like the loop is faster than the first download and m_CurrentlyDownloading have the latest value the first time DownloadCompleted() is beeing executed.
private void someRandomMethod() {
for (int i = 0; i < versions.Count; i++)
{
//ClearInstallFolder();
m_CurrentlyDownloading = versions.ElementAt(i);
Download(versions.ElementAt(i));
LocalUpdate(versions.ElementAt(i));
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
}
}
private void Download(string p_Version)
{
string file = p_Version + ".zip";
string url = #"http://192.168.56.5/" + file;
//client is global in the class
client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadFileCompleted += new AsyncCompletedEventHandler(DownloadCompleted);
client.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(DownloadProgressChanged);
client.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(url), #"C:\tmp\" + file);
}
private void DownloadCompleted(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Error == null)
{
Unpack(m_CurrentlyDownloading);
if (GetInstalledVersion() == GetLatestVersion())
ClearZipFiles();
}
else
MessageBox.Show(e.Error.ToString());
}

The easiest way would be to not use the *async methods. The normal DownloadFile will pause execution until it completes.
But if you've got access to the Await keyword, try this.
private async Task Download(string p_Version)
{
string file = p_Version + ".zip";
string url = #"http://192.168.56.5/" + file;
//client is global in the class
client = new WebClient();
client.DownloadFileCompleted += new AsyncCompletedEventHandler(DownloadCompleted);
client.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(DownloadProgressChanged);
await client.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(url), #"C:\tmp\" + file);
}

something like this can be used to wait
make it class property
bool IsDownloadCompleted=false;
Add this in DownloadCompletedEvent
IsDownloadCompleted=true;
and this where you want to stop loop
while(DownloadCompleted!=true)
{
Application.DoEvents();
}

Create some boolean variable, create a delegate and get\set methods for this variable.
Then just in loop made smth like :
while(!isDownLoadCompleted)Thread.Sleep(1024);

You Can use Paralel.ForEach. this loop will wait until all threads done.
check Here for how to use :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/tr-tr/library/dd460720(v=vs.110).aspx
or
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pfxteam/archive/2012/03/05/10278165.aspx

Get progress of an async call

I'm using a block of code I got from a blog, to upload images to IMGur using API v3.
It works fine, but I wanted to implement a progress bar system to let the user know how much has been uploaded, if the program deals with high res images.
So far I haven't been able to do so.
I'm not an experienced coder, just doing this as a learning project.
The Code:
public object UploadImage(string image)
{
WebClient w = new WebClient();
w.UploadProgressChanged += (s, e) => { };
w.UploadValuesCompleted += (s, e) => { };
w.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Client-ID " + ClientId);
System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection Keys = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
try
{
Keys.Add("image", Convert.ToBase64String(File.ReadAllBytes(image)));
byte[] responseArray = w.UploadValues("https://api.imgur.com/3/image", Keys);
dynamic result = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(responseArray); System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex reg = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("link\":\"(.*?)\"");
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match match = reg.Match(result);
string url = match.ToString().Replace("link\":\"", "").Replace("\"", "").Replace("\\/", "/");
textBox1.Text = url;
return url;
}
catch (Exception s)
{
MessageBox.Show("Something went wrong. " + s.Message);
return "Failed!";
}
}
At first I tried using the events UploadProgressChanged and UploadValuesCompleted, but they are not triggered, my theory is they are triggered when UploadValuesAsync is called instead of UploadValues.
How do I implement a progress system?
What is the difference between async and normal transfer?

The difference between aync and normal transfer is, that the UploadValues method will block the current thread until all data has been transferred. Because the thread is blocked in this time you can't catch any events too. Therefore you have to use the asynchrony method UploadValuesAsync which will transfer the data in the background and you're able to go on with the execution of your code.
The UploadProgressChanged only fires for the UploadValuesAsync too. Your code should look something like this (Not tested!):
public String UploadImage(string image)
{
WebClient w = new WebClient();
w.UploadProgressChanged += (s, e) =>
{
myProgressBar.Maximum = (int)e.TotalBytesToSend;
myProgressBar.Value = (int)e.BytesSent;
};
w.UploadValuesCompleted += new UploadValuesCompletedEventHandler(UploadComplete);
w.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Client-ID " + ClientId);
System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection Keys = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection();
try
{
Keys.Add("image", Convert.ToBase64String(File.ReadAllBytes(image)));
w.UploadValuesAsync("https://api.imgur.com/3/image", Keys);
return "Uploading..";
} catch (Exception s)
{
MessageBox.Show("Something went wrong. " + s.Message);
return "Failed!";
}
}
public void UploadComplete(Object sender, UploadValuesCompletedEventArgs e)
{
myProgressBar.Value = 100;
byte[] responseArray = e.Result;
dynamic result = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(responseArray);
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex reg = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("link\":\"(.*?)\"");
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match match = reg.Match(result);
string url = match.ToString().Replace("link\":\"", "").Replace("\"", "").Replace("\\/", "/");
textBox1.Text = url;
}
Edit
I moved the code after the UploadValuesAsync call into the w.UploadValuesCompleted. You can find the server response in the Result field of the UploadValuesCompletedEventArgs class which is passed to the event in the variable e.
Your method UploadImage will now return Uploading when the progress started and you'll have to do your rest work in the w.UploadValuesCompleted event.

can't download multiplie files using DownloadFileAsync

I am developing an application for my own, In fact this application is for downloading latest version of antivirus that we are using in our company
in this application I want to use DownloadFileAsync method for download my files but it's not working and I am getting this error :
WebClient does not support concurrent I/O operations.
this is my source code :
private static WebClient wc = new WebClient();
private static ManualResetEvent handle = new ManualResetEvent(true);
private DateTime myDate = new DateTime();
private void btn_test_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
client.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
var doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
ArrayList result = new ArrayList();
doc.LoadHtml(client.DownloadString("https://www.symantec.com/security_response/definitions/download/detail.jsp?gid=savce"));
foreach (var href in doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("a").Select(x => x.Attributes["href"]))
{
if (href == null) continue;
string s = href.Value;
Match m = Regex.Match(s, #"http://definitions.symantec.com/defs/(\d{8}-\d{3}-v5i(32|64)\.exe)");
if (m.Success)
{
Match date = Regex.Match(m.Value, #"(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})");
Match filename = Regex.Match(m.Value, #"\d{8}-\d{3}-v5i(32|64)\.exe");
int year = Int32.Parse(date.Groups[0].Value);
int month = Int32.Parse(date.Groups[1].Value);
int day = Int32.Parse(date.Groups[3].Value);
myDate = new DateTime(
Int32.Parse(date.Groups[1].Value),
Int32.Parse(date.Groups[2].Value),
Int32.Parse(date.Groups[3].Value));
listBox1.Items.Add(m.Value);
if (myDate == DateTime.Now)
{
Download(m.Value,filename.Value);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("There is no Update!");
}
}
}
}
}
private void Download(string url, string fileName)
{
wc.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(wc_DownloadProgressChanged);
wc.DownloadFileAsync(new Uri(url), #"\\10.1.0.15\Symantec Update Weekly\\" + fileName);
//wc.DownloadFile(url, #"\\10.1.0.15\Symantec Update Weekly\\" + fileName);
}
private void WcOnDownloadFileCompleted(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e)
{
if (!e.Cancelled && e.Error == null)
{
//async download completed successfully
}
handle.Set();
}
private void wc_DownloadProgressChanged(object sender, System.Net.DownloadProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
double bytesIn = double.Parse(e.BytesReceived.ToString());
double totalBytes = double.Parse(e.TotalBytesToReceive.ToString());
double percentage = bytesIn / totalBytes * 100;
progressBar1.Value = int.Parse(Math.Truncate(percentage).ToString());
}
when my application trying to download files,
it seems that above method can not download multiple files in same time.
I searched a lot and find this solution but I could not apply that into my application.
how can I solve that.
thanks in your advise.

// Declare a field to hold the Task
private static Task DownloadTask;
private Task Download(string url, string fileName)
{
var wc = new WebClient();
wc.DownloadProgressChanged += new DownloadProgressChangedEventHandler(wc_DownloadProgressChanged);
return wc.DownloadFileTaskAsync(new Uri(url), #"\\10.1.0.15\Symantec Update Weekly\\" + fileName);
}
You'll probably need change the progressbar to handle multiple threads.
Inside btn_test_Click
// Before foreach
var tasks = new List<Task>();
// Inside foreach
if (myDate == DateTime.Now)
{
MessageBox.Show("Updates are New");
}
else
{
tasks.Add(Download(m.Value,filename.Value));
}
// After foreach
// You can also set the TimeSpan value and update the progressbar
// periodically until all the tasks are finished
DownloadTask = Task.WhenAll(tasks);
See Task.WaitAll, WebClient.DownloadFileTaskAsync

Multiple asynchronous method calls in a loop Window Phone 7

I have a collection of picture Objects for which I need to download thumbs and pictures files located on dataservise, how can I managed this?
In this method I have loop to call three methods; one to add objects to data base, second to download and save picture thumb and third to download and save picture file the other two is ClientOpenReadCompleted methods.
public bool AddAllPhoto()
{
var amount = App.ViewModel.NewPictures.Count;
for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++)
{
//to add picture to DB
SavePicture(App.ViewModel.NewPictures[i]);
DownloadPicture(NewPictures[i].ID.ToString());
DownloadPictureThumb(NewPictures[i].ID.ToString()));
}
return true;
}
Second;
public void DownloadPictureThumb(string path)
{
string outputString = String.Format("http://" + App.ServerAdress + "/ /Pictures/Thumbs/{0}.jpg", path);
var client = new WebClient();
client.OpenReadCompleted += ClientOpenReadCompleted1;
client.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(outputString));
}
private static void ClientOpenReadCompleted1(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e)
{
var resInfo = new StreamResourceInfo(e.Result, null);
var reader = new StreamReader(resInfo.Stream);
byte[] contents;
using (var bReader = new BinaryReader(reader.BaseStream))
{
contents = bReader.ReadBytes((int)reader.BaseStream.Length);
}
var file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
var thumbFilePath = String.Format(PicturesThumbsColectionKey + "{0}", PictureDataStoreLocal.ID);
var stream = thumbFile.CreateFile(thumbFilePath);
stream.Write(contents, 0, contents.Length);
stream.Close();
}
And third one
public void DownloadPicture(string path)
{
string outputString = String.Format("http://" + App.ServerAdress + "/Pictures/{0}.jpg", path);
var client = new WebClient();
client.OpenReadCompleted += ClientOpenReadCompleted1;
client.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(outputString));
}
private static void ClientOpenReadCompleted1(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e)
{
var resInfo = new StreamResourceInfo(e.Result, null);
var reader = new StreamReader(resInfo.Stream);
byte[] contents;
using (var bReader = new BinaryReader(reader.BaseStream))
{
contents = bReader.ReadBytes((int)reader.BaseStream.Length);
}
var file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
IsolatedStorageFileStream stream = file.CreateFile(PictureDataStoreLocal.ID.ToString());
stream.Write(contents, 0, contents.Length);
stream.Close();
}

I assume you want to process the pictures synchronously. If so I would use a wait handle. The easiest way to do this would be to declare a private AutoResetEvent field. The AutoResetEvent is good here because it just lets one thread through and then blocks again automatically.
If you do this you will need to make sure of two things:
1. You do ALL work on a different thread so that when you call WaitOne() you aren't blocking the thread that is supposed to be doing the work.
2. You always reset the wait handle regardless of the outcome of the server calls.
To take care of 1. you just need to update your loop:
m_waitHandle.Reset(); // Make sure the wait handle blocks when WaitOne() is called
for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++)
{
// Process on a background thread
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem((obj) =>
{
// Get the current index. This is an anonymous method so if
// we use 'i' directly we will not necessarily be using the
// correct index. In our case the wait handle avoids this
// problem as the pictures are downloaded one after the other
// but it's still good practise to NEVER use a loop variable in
// an anonymous method.
int index = (int)obj;
//to add picture to DB
SavePicture(App.ViewModel.NewPictures[index]);
DownloadPicture(NewPictures[index].ID.ToString());
DownloadPictureThumb(NewPictures[index].ID.ToString()));
}, i);
m_waitHandle.WaitOne(); // Wait for processing to finish
}
For 2. you need to make sure that m_waitHandle.Set() is ALWAYS called when processing is finished.

What I do is send extra parameters to the OpenReadCompleted event using a delegate like so,
someimage.LoadingCompleted += delegate(object sender, EventArgs imge) { someimage_LoadingCompleted(sender, imge, _item, "someimage"); };
and then in someimage_LoadingCompleted I have code within a switch statement.

Here is my solution, not that elegant but working one; If you have any suggestion to improve , please post and I will edit my post.
EventWaitHandle m_WaitHandle;
public bool AddAllPhoto()
{
var amount = App.ViewModel.NewPictures.Count;
if (m_WaitHandle!=null)
m_WaitHandle.Reset();
for (int i = 0; i < amount; i++)
{
{
SavePicture(App.ViewModel.NewPictures[i]);
ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem((obj) =>
{
var index = (int)obj;
DownloadPictureThumb(App.ViewModel.NewPictures[index].ID.ToString());
DownloadPicture(App.ViewModel.NewPictures[index].ID.ToString());
},i);
if (m_WaitHandle != null) m_WaitHandle.WaitOne();
}
return true;
}
public void DownloadPictureThumb(string path)
{
string outputString = String.Format("http://" + App.ServerAdress + "/Pictures/Thumbs/{0}.jpg", path);
var client = new WebClient();
client.OpenReadCompleted += ClientOpenReadCompleted2;
client.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(outputString),path);
}
private static void ClientOpenReadCompleted2(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e)
{
var resInfo = new StreamResourceInfo(e.Result, null);
var reader = new StreamReader(resInfo.Stream);
byte[] contents;
using (var bReader = new BinaryReader(reader.BaseStream))
{
contents = bReader.ReadBytes((int)reader.BaseStream.Length);
}
var file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
var thumbFilePath = String.Format(PicturesThumbsColectionKey + "{0}", e.UserState as string);
var stream = file.CreateFile(thumbFilePath);
stream.Write(contents, 0, contents.Length);
stream.Close();
}
public void DownloadPicture(string path)
{
string outputString = String.Format("http://" + App.ServerAdress + "/Pictures/{0}.jpg", path);
var client = new WebClient();
client.OpenReadCompleted += ClientOpenReadCompleted1;
client.OpenReadAsync(new Uri(outputString), path);
}
private static void ClientOpenReadCompleted1(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs e)
{
var resInfo = new StreamResourceInfo(e.Result, null);
var reader = new StreamReader(resInfo.Stream);
byte[] contents;
using (var bReader = new BinaryReader(reader.BaseStream))
{
contents = bReader.ReadBytes((int)reader.BaseStream.Length);
}
var file = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication();
var stream = file.CreateFile(e.UserState as string);
stream.Write(contents, 0, contents.Length);
stream.Close();
}
[Here][1] you will find explanation to how to get the url from WebClient in OpenReadCompleted?