Firebase in c# (API recommendation)

Question

I am trying to make a simple program using a firebase database. But i would like to code my client in C# is there any good APIs available? I found a few but some are lacking functions and i would like to know the opinion of someone more experienced in these waters.

Answer 1

There is a REST API which is fairly portable, and you can use this from any .NET language on any supported platform. Dina Cruz has a thorough example of using this API, and you could easily convert this info and use the portable/basic HttpWebRequest type from the BCL instead of whatever Dina used, for example, this is a transliteration of the first POST example from Dina's blog:

var json = Newtonsoft.Json.JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new
{
    user = "UserNameValue",
    message = "MessageValue"
});
var request = WebRequest.CreateHttp("https://tm-admin-test.firebaseio.com/.json");
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
var buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json);
request.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
request.GetRequestStream().Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
var response = request.GetResponse();
json = (new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())).ReadToEnd();
// TODO: parse response (contained in `json` variable) as appropriate

There are also several open source projects including Fire#, FirebaseDatabase.net and FirebaseSharp. I'm not sure if these support "all the things."

References

• Firebase REST API on google.com
• C# example of using Firebase REST API on dinacruz.com
• REST examples in C# using WebRequest on StackOverflow.com
• Fire# project on github.com
• FirebaseDatabase.net project on github.com
• FirebaseSharp project on github.com