Consuming json API in C# application – part 3

To fetch JSON API response from web and deserialize it to class in C# (NET 6 / 7), next steps are needed:

– Use the HttpClient class to send HTTP requests and receive HTTP responses³.
– Use the JsonSerializer class to deserialize JSON into objects²³.
– Create a class with properties that match the JSON properties you want to deserialize².

Class we already created in previous post Consuming json API in C# application

Here is an example of fetching JSON data response from public web API  deserializing it to a ApiResponse class:

It has two methods one for asynchronous and another for synchronous call.

Input parameter is page number to fetch, default is page 1.

using System.Text.Json;


namespace YifyReleases.Classes {
    public class ApiConnector {
        private static readonly HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

        public static async Task<ApiResponse> ProcessReleasesAsync(int pageNo = 1) {
            var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get,
                $"https://yts.mx/api/v2/list_movies.json?limit=50&page={pageNo}");
            request.Headers.Add("User-Agent", ".NET New Releases Fetcher");

            var response = await client.SendAsync(request);
            
            // Ensure web request was successful
            response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

            using var responseStream = await response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();
            if (responseStream == null) {
                return new ApiResponse();
            }
            else {
                return await JsonSerializer.DeserializeAsync<ApiResponse>(responseStream);
            }
            
        }

        public static ApiResponse ProcessReleases(int pageNo = 1) {
            var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get,
                $"https://yts.mx/api/v2/list_movies.json?limit=50&page={pageNo}");
            request.Headers.Add("User-Agent", ".NET New Releases Fetcher");

            var task = client.SendAsync(request);
            task.Wait();
            var response = task.Result;
            
            // Ensure web request was successful
            response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();

            var task2 = response.Content.ReadAsStreamAsync();
            task2.Wait();
            using var responseStream = task2.Result;
            if (responseStream == null) {
                return new ApiResponse();
            }
            else {
                return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<ApiResponse>(responseStream);
            }

        }

    }
}

Method returns ApiResponse class.

See also previous post Consuming json API in C# application – part 2

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(2) How to serialize and deserialize JSON using C# – .NET.
(3) json.net – C# Deserialize json api response – Stack Overflow.