I found how to do a “custom” PATCH request with the previous System.Net.Http.HttpClient class here, and then fiddled with until I made it work in the Windows.Web.Http.HttpClient class, like so: public async Task<HttpResponseMessage> PatchAsync(HttpClient client, Uri requestUri, IHttpContent iContent) { var method = new HttpMethod(“PATCH”); var request = new HttpRequestMessage(method, requestUri) { Content = iContent … Read more
but what i am doing is purely synchronous You could use HttpClient for synchronous requests just fine: using (var client = new HttpClient()) { var response = client.GetAsync(“http://google.com”).Result; if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode) { var responseContent = response.Content; // by calling .Result you are synchronously reading the result string responseString = responseContent.ReadAsStringAsync().Result; Console.WriteLine(responseString); } } As far as … Read more
The factory is helper method to assist in the creation of a client when you have more than one DelegatingHandler in the pipeine. Delegating handlers need to be connected together to form a pipeline. This factory allows you to pass the handlers in as an array and the factory will take care of connecting them … Read more
The straight up answer to your question is: No. The signature for the PostAsync method is as follows: public Task PostAsync(Uri requestUri, HttpContent content) So, while you can pass an object to PostAsync it must be of type HttpContent and your anonymous type does not meet that criteria. However, there are ways to accomplish what … Read more
I have found the answer to my question. client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add(“X-Version”,”1″); That should add a custom header to your request
I wrote the following extension method to clone the request. public static HttpRequestMessage Clone(this HttpRequestMessage req) { HttpRequestMessage clone = new HttpRequestMessage(req.Method, req.RequestUri); clone.Content = req.Content; clone.Version = req.Version; foreach (KeyValuePair<string, object> prop in req.Properties) { clone.Properties.Add(prop); } foreach (KeyValuePair<string, IEnumerable<string>> header in req.Headers) { clone.Headers.TryAddWithoutValidation(header.Key, header.Value); } return clone; }
In the current version of Web API, the usage of multiple complex objects (like your Content and Config complex objects) within the Web API method signature is not allowed. I’m betting good money that config (your second parameter) is always coming back as NULL. This is because only one complex object can be parsed from … Read more
If your headers are usually going to be the same then you can set the DefaultRequestHeaders. But you don’t need to use that property to specify headers. As you’ve determined, that just wouldn’t work if you’re going to have multiple threads using the same client. Changes to the default headers made on one thread would … Read more
WebAPI v2.1 and beyond supports BSON (Binary JSON) out of the box, and even has a MediaTypeFormatter included for it. This means you can post your entire message in binary format. If you want to use it, you’ll need to set it in WebApiConfig: public static class WebApiConfig { public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config) { … Read more
Besides the tests mentioned in the question, I recently created some new ones involving much fewer HTTP calls (5000 compared to 1 million previously) but on requests that took much longer to execute (500 milliseconds compared to around 1 millisecond previously). Both tester applications, the synchronously multithreaded one (based on HttpWebRequest) and asynchronous I/O one … Read more