How do I access the content of an API response?

Question

I've tried implementing the simplest case of this with a call to Mandrill's API using the method "ping." The response should be pong. Using a valid key, the response seems to work. However, I am having trouble accessing the content of the response.

The code is as follows:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;

namespace MandrillAPI
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string ping = "https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/users/ping.json";
            string key = "?key=123";
            HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
            client.BaseAddress = new Uri(ping);
            HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(key).Result;
            Console.WriteLine(response.ToString());
            Console.Read();
        }
    }
}

How do I unpack the response from the call? Ultimately, I need to harvest emails from the server using the API, so I'll need to somehow preserve the structure of the json objects so I can access the details of the email.

Can you elaborate on what you expect the result(s) to be? – Drew Kennedy May 12 '15 at 18:42 — Drew Kennedy, May 12 '15 at 18:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '15 at 18:25

If you just want to read the response as a string:

string content = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result

If you want to deserialize to some class (in this case the type MyClass):

MyClass myClass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<MyClass>(response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result)

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '15 at 17:56

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I would use something like JSON.Net to serialize it to a C# object that you can then use.

answered May 12 '15 at 17:56

bwighthunter

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How do I access the content of an API response?

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