在Winform,Silvelight,WPF等程序中访问Asp.net MVC web api

Asp.net mvc 4中出现的web api是用来实现REST.

关于什么是REST，可以看这里http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/REST

 

通过ajax等访问 web api非常方便，但是如何在Winform, Silverlight等访问web api呢?

通过搜索，发现了已经有人做过这个东西了，就是RestSharp.

http://restsharp.org/

https://github.com/restsharp/RestSharp

 RestSharp不只是访问web api, 访问其他平台的Rest API也是一样。

看看介绍的使用，无论是post数据，文件，格式化返回数据，异步请求都非常方便：

 

var client = new RestClient("http://example.com");

// client.Authenticator = new HttpBasicAuthenticator(username, password);



var request = new RestRequest("resource/{id}", Method.POST);

request.AddParameter("name", "value"); // adds to POST or URL querystring based on Method

request.AddUrlSegment("id", 123); // replaces matching token in request.Resource



// add parameters for all properties on an object

request.AddObject(object);



// or just whitelisted properties

request.AddObject(object, "PersonId", "Name", ...);



// easily add HTTP Headers

request.AddHeader("header", "value");



// add files to upload (works with compatible verbs)

request.AddFile(path);



// execute the request

RestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

var content = response.Content; // raw content as string



// or automatically deserialize result

// return content type is sniffed but can be explicitly set via RestClient.AddHandler();

RestResponse<Person> response2 = client.Execute<Person>(request);

var name = response2.Data.Name;



// or download and save file to disk

client.DownloadData(request).SaveAs(path);



// easy async support

client.ExecuteAsync(request, response => {

    Console.WriteLine(response.Content);

});



// async with deserialization

var asyncHandle = client.ExecuteAsync<Person>(request, response => {

    Console.WriteLine(response.Data.Name);

});



// abort the request on demand

asyncHandle.Abort();