restsharp/RestSharp
RestSharp
RestSharp is a .NET HTTP client library designed for interacting with RESTful web services. It provides a high-level request wrapper and a dedicated REST API client to manage endpoints, headers, and query parameters.
The library includes a serialization mechanism that automatically converts objects to and from JSON or XML formats for API payloads. It also features a system for managing API credentials and security tokens to ensure authorized access to protected remote resources.
The toolkit covers broad capabilities for external web service integration, including generic type-based deserialization and pluggable authenticator mechanisms. It further provides a request-response pipeline and utilities for dynamic query construction and request body encoding.
Features
- RESTful API Clients - Implements a full-featured client for interacting with RESTful web services, managing endpoints, headers, and parameters.
- Third-Party Service Integrations - Provides a comprehensive SDK for connecting .NET applications to external APIs and cloud services.
- HTTP Client Libraries - Provides a dedicated .NET library for transmitting HTTP requests and processing server responses.
- HTTP Abstraction Layers - Provides a high-level abstraction layer over the native .NET HttpClient for simplified request and response handling.
- HTTP Request Abstractions - Ships a high-level abstraction over the standard .NET networking stack for simplified API consumption.
- .NET HTTP API Integrations - Enables .NET applications to send requests to external web services and process the returned data.
- Web Data Service Integrations - Provides capabilities to execute HTTP requests and process data from third-party web services and APIs.
- Pluggable Serializers - Implements a pluggable serialization system to convert C# objects into JSON or XML formats.
- JSON Serialization Libraries - Includes a mechanism for automatically converting C# objects to and from JSON and XML formats.
- Request-Response Middleware - Provides a modular request-response pipeline that sequentially processes configuration and response handling.
- Request Header Management - Offers tools for configuring and managing HTTP request headers, cookies, and query parameters.
- JSON Serialization - Utilities for converting C# objects to JSON and XML for network transmission and parsing responses back.
- API Credential Managers - Handles the management and application of security tokens and identity credentials for protected remote resources.
- Pluggable Authentication Handlers - Decouples credential management from request logic using separate handler classes for various security schemes.
- Remote Service Authentication - Manages security tokens and identity credentials to facilitate authorized access to protected remote APIs.
- Data Serialization Formats - Transforms request and response bodies between C# objects and standardized JSON or XML formats.
- Response Deserialization - Automatically maps HTTP response bodies to specified C# types using generic type parameters and reflection.
- Query String Construction - Dynamically builds URI query strings by mapping key-value pairs to formatted URL strings.
- Request Body Handling - Includes mechanisms for defining and serializing request payloads into JSON, XML, or multipart formats.
- API Development - Simple and widely used HTTP client for .NET.
- API Integration Tools - Low-level HTTP client wrapper, good for custom scenarios.
- Client Libraries - Standard REST and HTTP client library for .NET.
- HTTP Clients - Simple REST and HTTP API client.
