Httipi 1.0.1

httipi

A .NET Standard compliant set of extenions methods for System.Net.HttpClient that makes making HTTP requests much much simpler. Includes a fluent HttpRequestMessage builder.

Compression is automatically enabled if available (from response headers) and streams are used throughout the stack to ensure large requests are handled appropriately.

Getting Started

A simple example to execute a GET request deserializing JSON to CLR object using Json.NET

var http = new HttpClient();
var someObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(await http.GetString("http://someurl.com"));

A more complex PATCH request with a JSON request body and an HMAC authorization header.

var http = new HttpClient();
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { someProperty = "newPropertyValue" }); 

var req = new HTTipiRequestBuilder().SetUrl("http://someurl.com")
                                    .SetMethod(new HttpMethod("PATCH"))
                                    .WithContent(new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json"))
                                    .AddHeader("Authorization", "hmac somecrazylonghmackey")

await http.Execute(req);

Exception handling.

var http = new HttpClient();

try
{
  var someObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(await http.GetString("http://someurl.com"));
}
catch (HTTipiException ex)
{
  //logging
}