/// <summary>
/// Executes a web request against the OpSkins API.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="url">A string containing the URL for the web request.</param>
/// <param name="method">A string indicating the method of the web request.</param>
/// <param name="authToken">A string containing the OpSkins authentication token to use for the request.</param>
/// <param name="data">A string containing data relating to the web request.</param>
/// <returns>A string containing the result returned by the web request.</returns>
internal static string ExecuteRequest(string url, string method, string authToken, string data = null)
{
HttpWebRequest Request;
StreamReader Reader = null;
HttpWebResponse Response;
string ReturnValue = null;
// Configure the request
Request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
Request.Headers.Add("authorization", "Basic " + authToken);
Request.Method = method;
// Add post data
if (method == "POST" && data != null && data.Length > 0)
{
byte[] Data;
Stream RequestStream;
Data = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(data);
Request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
Request.ContentLength = Data.Length;
RequestStream = Request.GetRequestStream();
RequestStream.Write(Data, 0, Data.Length);
RequestStream.Flush();
RequestStream.Close();
}
try
{
Response = (HttpWebResponse)Request.GetResponse();
try
{
Reader = new StreamReader(Response.GetResponseStream());
ReturnValue = Reader.ReadToEnd();
}
finally
{
if (Reader != null)
{
Reader.Close();
}
}
}
catch (WebException wex)
{
if (wex.Response != null)
{
try
{
string WexData;
StreamReader WexReader;
WexReader = new StreamReader(wex.Response.GetResponseStream());
WexData = WexReader.ReadToEnd();
ReturnValue = WexData;
// _LogWriter.LogMessage(LogFileEntryPriority.Error, "ExecuteRequest", "WebException error '{0}' generated with response: {1}", wex.Message, ReturnValue);
}
catch (Exception)
{
// _LogWriter.LogMessage(LogFileEntryPriority.Error, "ExecuteRequest", "WebException error '{0}' generated. Unable to process Response object with exception '{1}'", wex.Message, ex.Message);
}
}
else
{
//_LogWriter.LogMessage(LogFileEntryPriority.Error, "ExecuteRequest", "WebException error '{0}' generated without Response object", wex.Message);
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
//_LogWriter.LogMessage(LogFileEntryPriority.Error, "ExecuteRequest", "Exception error '{0}' generated", ex.Message);
}
return(ReturnValue);
}
