Get JSON response from Web API

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I want to get JSON response from Web API Call. I am calling it like below

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://myapi.proj.com/");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Basic TUNTRTpNQ1MhZTIwMTc=");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("ClientURL", "http://123.com");
var response = client.PostAsJsonAsync("api/name/", priceRequest).Result;

I am unable to JSON in response variable. I want to get JSON response and assign it to my class which is somewhat like below

public class Information
{
    public int id{ get; set; }
    public string Name{ get; set; }
    public string address{ get; set; }
}

CodeFuller · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-10 07:53:50Z

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Try this:

Information obj = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync<Information>();

You need to reference System.Net.Http.Formatting assembly where extension method ReadAsAsync<T> is defined.

answered Nov 10, 2017 at 7:53

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James Over a year ago

i am using VS 2013

CodeFuller Over a year ago

How it relates to my answer? :)

CodeFuller Over a year ago

Probably your method is not async. I also see that you call client.PostAsJsonAsync("api/name/", priceRequest).Result instead of await client.PostAsJsonAsync("api/name/", priceRequest). It's a bad practice. Check this: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/async

James Over a year ago

which Library to add to use await?

CodeFuller Over a year ago

It's a native C# construct. Check the article from above comment too learn basics of async programming in c#.

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James · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-10 10:42:55Z

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I found myself

This is what i used

var result = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
var test = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(result);

answered Nov 10, 2017 at 10:42

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