Retrieve the response from the Rest API

Question

I have the REST API which returns the JSON response like

[{
    "AccountID": "adm",
    "CounterSeq": "024",
    "Year": "17"
}]

I need to retrieve the response

 var response_EndPoint = await client_EndPoint.GetAsync(EndPoint_URL);
 var projectName = await response_EndPoint.Content.ReadAsAsync<APIResponseModel[]>();

The model class looks like

public class APIResponseModel
{
    public string AccountID { get; set; }
    public string CounterSeq { get; set; }
    public string Year { get; set; }
}

I need to construct the String which should be like "adm-024-17". How can I convert the response in the string?

Answer 1

If you are getting an instance of your APIResponseModel back from your service call, you just simply need to format the values into the string that you want:

Assuming, as it appears, it can come back as an array of APIResponseModel instances, then you just need to loop through the collection and format them as strings...

foreach(APIResponseModel response in projectName)
{
    string serviceResponse = string.Format("{0}-{1}-{2}", response.AccountID, response.CounterSeq, response.Year);
    Console.WriteLine(serviceResponse);
}

Answer 2

You can add a read only property to the class. This is assuming you have deserialized the JSON string.

public class APIResponseModel
{
    public string AccountID { get; set; }
    public string CounterSeq { get; set; }
    public string Year { get; set; }

    public string getAllValues
    {
        get
        {
            return AccountID + "-" + CounterSeq + "-" + Year;
        }
    }

    // and/or

    public override string ToString()
    {
        return AccountID + "-" + CounterSeq + "-" + Year;
    }
}