//finds and populates a summoner object with data from the API.
//returns null and prints the exception if something goes wrong.
public static async Task <Summoner> FillSummoner(string apiKey, string summonerName, HttpClient client)
{
//always clear headers first so you can call consecutively..
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Clear();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-Riot-Token", apiKey);
try{
var result = await client.GetStreamAsync(baseUrl + "/lol/summoner/v3/summoners/by-name/" + summonerName);
var serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(Summoner));
Summoner summoner = serializer.ReadObject(result) as Summoner;
Console.WriteLine("Summoner: " + summoner.name + "\n Level: " + summoner.summonerLevel);
return(summoner);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
return(null);
}
}