C# Using a Json WebService in production

Question

How should one write a library that is responsible for connecting to a restful api? The lib should provide methods for direct access for the api functions. Is using WebClient to get the response as string and Json.NET to deserialize them as objects a reliable, acceptable way of doing this?

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback = (a, b, c, d) => true;//the server uses a self signed SSL cert

using (WebClient client = new WebClient())
{
    client.Headers.Add("..", "....");
    string str = client.DownloadString("https://..../users/"+UserId+"/super-secret-data");     
}

Answer 1

you can make a class for each group of calls (user management, up/downloading data,...). this class implements some functions (mapping the web calls). so when you want to list all new member, then you can write

var accounting = new Accounting();
var memberList = accounting.GetNewMember();

This function ( GetNewMember() ) is simply a wrapper. In the function you call the REST-full API get the JSON back an convert it into the result you want.

And for creating the URIs, you can use the string.Format(string, object[]) overloading.

Answer 2

您可以这样做，也可以将代码生成与Visual Studio和swagger结合使用，以在解决方案中导入其余的Web api。