/// <summary>
/// Retrieves bytes from the server
/// </summary>
/// <param name="settings"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static async Task <byte[]> HttpRequestBytesAsync(HttpRequestSettings settings)
{
var client = new HttpUtilsWebClient(settings);
if (settings.Content != null)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(settings.ContentType))
{
client.Headers["Content-type"] = settings.ContentType;
}
if (settings.Content is string)
{
settings.CapturedRequestContent = settings.Content as string;
settings.ResponseByteData = await client.UploadDataTaskAsync(settings.Url, settings.HttpVerb, settings.Encoding.GetBytes(settings.CapturedRequestContent));
}
else if (settings.Content is byte[])
{
settings.ResponseByteData = await client.UploadDataTaskAsync(settings.Url, settings.Content as byte[]);
}
else
{
throw new ArgumentException("Data must be either string or byte[].");
}
}
else
{
settings.ResponseByteData = await client.DownloadDataTaskAsync(settings.Url);
}
settings.Response = client.Response;
return(settings.ResponseByteData);
}
/// <summary>
/// Retrieves and Http request and returns data as a string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="settings">Pass HTTP request configuration parameters object to set the URL, Verb, Headers, content and more</param>
/// <returns>string of HTTP response</returns>
public static async Task<string> HttpRequestStringAsync(HttpRequestSettings settings)
{
var client = new HttpUtilsWebClient(settings);
if (settings.HttpVerb == "GET")
settings.CapturedResponseContent = await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(new Uri(settings.Url));
else
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(settings.ContentType))
client.Headers["Content-type"] = settings.ContentType;
if (settings.Content is string)
{
settings.CapturedRequestContent = settings.Content as string;
settings.CapturedResponseContent = await client.UploadStringTaskAsync(settings.Url, settings.HttpVerb, settings.CapturedRequestContent);
}
else if (settings.Content is byte[])
{
settings.ResponseByteData = await client.UploadDataTaskAsync(settings.Url, settings.Content as byte[]);
settings.CapturedResponseContent = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(settings.ResponseByteData);
}
else
throw new ArgumentException("Data must be either string or byte[].");
}
settings.Response = client.Response;
return settings.CapturedResponseContent;
}
/// <summary>
/// Retrieves and Http request and returns data as a string.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="settings">Pass HTTP request configuration parameters object to set the URL, Verb, Headers, content and more</param>
/// <returns>string of HTTP response</returns>
public static async Task <string> HttpRequestStringAsync(HttpRequestSettings settings)
{
var client = new HttpUtilsWebClient();
if (settings.Credentials != null)
{
client.Credentials = settings.Credentials;
}
if (settings.Proxy != null)
{
client.Proxy = settings.Proxy;
}
if (settings.Headers != null)
{
foreach (var header in settings.Headers)
{
client.Headers[header.Key] = header.Value;
}
}
if (settings.HttpVerb == "GET")
{
settings.CapturedResponseContent = await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(new Uri(settings.Url));
}
else
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(settings.ContentType))
{
client.Headers["Content-type"] = settings.ContentType;
}
if (settings.Content is string)
{
settings.CapturedRequestContent = settings.Content as string;
settings.CapturedResponseContent = await client.UploadStringTaskAsync(settings.Url, settings.HttpVerb, settings.CapturedRequestContent);
}
else if (settings.Content is byte[])
{
settings.ResponseByteData = await client.UploadDataTaskAsync(settings.Url, settings.Content as byte[]);
settings.CapturedResponseContent = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(settings.ResponseByteData);
}
else
{
throw new ArgumentException("Data must be either string or byte[].");
}
}
settings.Response = client.Response;
return(settings.CapturedResponseContent);
}