The HTTP Client is used to call the API in console application or any another .NET application, Here is the example to implement it.

Http request

GET: /api/Employees/

Response


HttpClient

It is a class which is from System.Net.Http Namespace and provides a base class for sending HTTP requests and receiving HTTP responses from a resource identified by a URI.

Complete Code:

  1. class Program
  2. {
  3. static void Main(string[] args)
  4. {
  5. Task T = new Task(ApiCall);
  6. T.Start();
  7. Console.WriteLine("Json data........");
  8. Console.ReadLine();
  9. }
  10. static async void ApiCall()
  11. {
  13. using (var client = new HttpClient())
  14. {
  16. HttpResponseMessage response = await client.GetAsync("http://localhost:57135/api/Employees/");
  18. response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
  20. using (HttpContent content = response.Content)
  21. {
  22. string responseBody = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
  24. Console.WriteLine(responseBody.Substring(0, 50) + "........");
  26. var articles = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<Employee>>(responseBody);
  30. foreach (var Emp in articles)
  31. {
  32. Console.WriteLine("{0}\t{1}\t{2}\t{3}", Emp.EmployeeId, Emp.FirstName, Emp.LastName, Emp.Age);
  33. }
  35. }
  37. }
  38. }

Output:

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