Best way to POST and GET Response from REST API'S

Question

I am doing post and get response using HttpClient to communicate with REST API as below:

public static string  PostToAPI( string value)
 {
   var payload = new APIModel
     {
        CommandText = value
     };

  var stringPayload = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(payload);
  var httpContent = new StringContent(stringPayload,Encoding.UTF8,"application/json");
  System.Net.Http.HttpClient client = new System.Net.Http.HttpClient();
  HttpResponseMessage message=client.PostAsync("https://testAPI/test",httpContent).Result              if (message.IsSuccessStatusCode)
    {
          string result = message.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
           return result;
     }

      return string.Empty;

  }

is there any other alternative or best way do it?

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9620278/how-do-i-make-calls-to-a-rest-api-using-c — Adwaenyth, Aug 10 '16 at 12:14
check out RestSharp :) really simple to use. and you can call it with async, too. — Matthias Burger, Aug 10 '16 at 12:16

score -2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '16 at 12:31

You can always use HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse. Try Below

        try
        {
            var webAddr = "URL";
            var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(webAddr);
            httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application";
            httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";

            string str = "request string";

            httpWebRequest.Headers["Authorization"] = "";
            httpWebRequest.Headers["TenantId"] = "";
            httpWebRequest.Headers["Client-Type"] = "";
            httpWebRequest.Headers["Protocol"] = "";

            using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
            {                    
                Console.WriteLine(str);
                streamWriter.Write(str);              
                streamWriter.Flush();
                streamWriter.Close();
            }
            var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
            using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
            {
                var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
                Console.WriteLine("result=" + result);

            }

        }
        catch (WebException ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
        }

Best way to POST and GET Response from REST API'S

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