Calling a REST Based JSON Endpoint with HTTP POST and WCF
- by Wallym
Note: I always forget this stuff, so I'm putting it my blog to help me remember it.Calling a JSON REST based service with some params isn't that hard. I have an endpoint that has this interface: [WebInvoke(UriTemplate = "/Login", Method="POST", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.Wrapped, RequestFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json, ResponseFormat = WebMessageFormat.Json )] [OperationContract] bool Login(LoginData ld); The LoginData class is defined like this: [DataContract] public class LoginData { [DataMember] public string UserName { get; set; } [DataMember] public string PassWord { get; set; } [DataMember] public string AppKey { get; set; } } Now
that you see my method to call to login as well as the class that is
passed for the login, the body of the login request looks like this:{ "ld" : { "UserName":"testuser", "PassWord":"ackkkk", "AppKey":"blah" } } The header (in Fiddler), looks like this:User-Agent: FiddlerHost: hostnameContent-Length: 76Content-Type: application/json And finally, my url to POST against is:http://www.something.com/...../someservice.svc/LoginAnd there you have it, calling a WCF JSON Endpoint thru REST (and HTTP POST)
