private HttpWebRequest CreateRequest(string restRelativeUri, RequestType requestType, RequestConfiguration additionalRequestConfiguration)
{
string url = Host + restRelativeUri;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
if (NetworkSettings.CustomProxy != null)
{
request.Proxy = NetworkSettings.CustomProxy;
}
//Add authentication cookies/headers
authenticationStrategy.PrepareRequest(request);
//add internal API token
request.Headers.Add("HPECLIENTTYPE", "HPE_CI_CLIENT");
//set content type/accept/method
switch (requestType)
{
case RequestType.Get:
request.Accept = CONTENT_TYPE_JSON;
request.Method = METHOD_GET;
break;
case RequestType.GetOctet:
request.Accept = CONTENT_TYPE_STREAM;
request.Method = METHOD_GET;
break;
case RequestType.Post:
request.ContentType = CONTENT_TYPE_JSON;
request.Accept = CONTENT_TYPE_JSON;
request.Method = METHOD_POST;
break;
case RequestType.PostOctet:
request.ContentType = CONTENT_TYPE_STREAM;
request.Method = METHOD_POST;
break;
case RequestType.Delete:
request.Accept = CONTENT_TYPE_JSON;
request.Method = METHOD_DELETE;
break;
case RequestType.Update:
request.ContentType = CONTENT_TYPE_JSON;
request.Accept = CONTENT_TYPE_JSON;
request.Method = METHOD_PUT;
break;
case RequestType.MultiPart:
request.ContentType = CONTENT_TYPE_MULTIPART;
request.Accept = CONTENT_TYPE_JSON;
request.Method = METHOD_POST;
break;
default:
break;
}
if (additionalRequestConfiguration != null)
{
if (additionalRequestConfiguration.Timeout.HasValue)
{
request.Timeout = additionalRequestConfiguration.Timeout.Value;
}
if (additionalRequestConfiguration.Headers != null)
{
foreach (KeyValuePair <string, string> header2value in additionalRequestConfiguration.Headers)
{
switch (header2value.Key.ToLower())
{
case "contenttype":
request.ContentType = header2value.Value;
break;
case "accept":
request.Accept = header2value.Value;
break;
default:
request.Headers.Add(header2value.Key, header2value.Value);
break;
}
}
}
if (additionalRequestConfiguration.GZipCompression)
{
request.Headers.Add("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
}
}
return(request);
}