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What are my options to consume a RESTful service using the .Net framework? When is WCF(using the WebChannelFactory) more preferable to HttpClient?
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A more useful way to consume a REST web service is programmatically. To help you with that task, Spring provides a convenient template class called RestTemplate . RestTemplate makes interacting with most RESTful services a one-line incantation. And it can even bind that data to custom domain types.
Step #1 – Enter the URL of the API in the textbox of the tool. Step #2 – Select the HTTP method used for this API (GET, POST, PATCH, etc). Step #3 – Enter any headers if they are required in the Headers textbox. Step #4 – Pass the request body of the API in a key-value pair.
Similarly, the act of consuming or using a REST API means to eat it all up. In context, it means to eat it, swallow it, and digest it — leaving any others in the pile exposed.
To use a REST service in Process Designer, you discover the service and select the operations that you want to use. Then, set the server that contains the configuration properties that are required to invoke the service.
Microsoft`s newest HTTP library is here https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Net.Http and I have a blog post showing how to use it here.
You would never want to use WebChannelFactory against a RESTful service. The coupling generated by WebChannelFactory defeats the point of REST.
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Check out restsharp. I haven't used it, but am looking into it for consuming our own REST services.
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The hammock project makes it very easy to consume RESTful services, you can use it to easily create the required http requests you need:
https://github.com/danielcrenna/hammock
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