GitHub Repos

Open Visual Studio 2022
New Project, C#, Windows, Console, Console App
Change the Name to "Console_Services_REST"
Change the Location to somewhere on your c drive and press Next
Check the .NET version is correct and press Create.
The solution contains one project and that project contains a single source file called program.cs
SS

REST Service JSON

We are going to use the following REST service:

https://api.github.com/users/officeaddins/repos 

Copy this into a browser and check that it works and returns JSON.

namespace consoleapp1 
{ 
  class Program 
  { 
    private static readonly 
    System.Net.Http.HttpClient client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient(); 

    private static async 
    System.Threading.Tasks.Task 
    Main(string[] args) 
    { 
      var repositories = await Method_ProcessRepositories(); 

      foreach (Class_Repository repo in repositories) 
      { 
        System.Console.WriteLine(repo.Property_Name); 
        System.Console.WriteLine(repo.Property_Description); 
        System.Console.WriteLine(repo.Property_HTMLUrl); 
        System.Console.WriteLine(); 
      } 
    } 

    private static async 
    System.Threading.Tasks.Task<System.Collections.Generic.List<Class_Repository>> 
    Method_ProcessRepositories() 
    { 
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear(); 
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add( 
          new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/vnd.github.v3+json")); 
      client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("User-Agent", ".NET Foundation Repository Reporter"); 

      var streamTask = client.GetStreamAsync("https://api.github.com/users/officeaddins/repos"); 

      var repositories = 
      await System.Text.Json.JsonSerializer.DeserializeAsync<System.Collections.Generic.List<Class_Repository>>(await streamTask); 

      if (repositories is not null) 
      { 
        return repositories; 
      } 
      else 
      { 
        return new System.Collections.Generic.List<Class_Repository>(); 
      } 
    } 
  } 

  public class 
  Class_Repository 
  { 
    [System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonPropertyName("name")] 
    public string? Property_Name { get; set; } 

    [System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonPropertyName("description")] 
    public string? Property_Description { get; set; } 

    [System.Text.Json.Serialization.JsonPropertyName("html_url")] 
    public System.Uri? Property_HTMLUrl { get; set; } 

  } 
} 

public class Class1 
    { 
        private const string URL = "https://sub.domain.com/objects.json?api_key=123"; 
        private const string DATA = @"{""object"":{""name"":""Name""}}"; 

        static void Main(string[] args) 
        { 
            Class1.CreateObject(); 
        } 

        private static void CreateObject() 
        { 
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(URL); 
            request.Method = "POST"; 
            request.ContentType = "application/json"; 
            request.ContentLength = DATA.Length; 
            StreamWriter requestWriter = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream(), System.Text.Encoding.ASCII); 
            requestWriter.Write(DATA); 
            requestWriter.Close(); 

             try { 
                WebResponse webResponse = request.GetResponse(); 
                Stream webStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream(); 
                StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(webStream); 
                string response = responseReader.ReadToEnd(); 
                Console.Out.WriteLine(response); 
                responseReader.Close(); 
            } catch (Exception e) { 
                Console.Out.WriteLine("-----------------"); 
                Console.Out.WriteLine(e.Message); 
            } 

        } 
    }