Finding result of POST in Http Response Message

Question

I am building REST Client (c#) using windows form application in VS2017. I have been able to successfully GET and POST requests from the server using the HttpClient.PostAsJsonAsync() and ReadAsync() methods. I am trying to POST some data to the server and upon a successful POST, the server responds with a unique string like "1c77ad2e-54e0-4187-aa9d-9a55286b1f7a"

I get a successful response code (200 - OK) for the POST. However, I am not sure where to check for the resulting string. I have checked the contents of HttpResponseMessage.Content

static async Task<HttpStatusCode> PostBurstData(string path, BurstRequest 
burstRequest)
    {
        HttpResponseMessage response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(path, burstRequest);

        response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
        Console.WriteLine(response.Content.ToString());

        // return response
        return response.StatusCode;
    }

The data sent to this function call is as follows:

BurstRequest request = new BurstRequest();
            request.NodeSerialNumbers = SubSerialList;
            request.StartTime = ((DateTimeOffset)dateTimePicker1.Value).ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();

            HttpStatusCode statusCode = new HttpStatusCode();

            statusCode = await PostBurstData(post_burst_url, request);

Where should I search for the string the server responds for a successful POST? Should the content be read using ReadAsync()?

if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
        {
            var data = await response.Content.ReadAsAsync();

        }

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 10 '19 at 06:40

Why not trying to use HttpContent like below:

using (HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync(url)) // here you can use your own implementation i.e PostAsJsonAsync
        {
            using (HttpContent content = response.Content)
            {
                string responseFromServer = await content.ReadAsStringAsync();

            }

        }

Finding result of POST in Http Response Message

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