C# GET Request and Parsing JSON

Question

I am developing Windows store app in Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012. I need to make GET request to a particular URL and get the JSON as response. And I need to parse the JSON to get the values in it. I need C# code to do the above functionality.

Solution

You could use the HttpClient class. The GetAsync method allows you to send a GET request to a specified url:

public async Task<JsonObject> GetAsync(string uri)
{
    var httpClient = new HttpClient();
    var content = await httpClient.GetStringAsync(uri);
    return await Task.Run(() => JsonObject.Parse(content));
}

Comments

[Ramesh]

@Darin Dimitrov Hey, I have written code up to getting response. I need to know how to get JSON from response and parse the JSON.

[musefan]

@Ramesh: So why not just ask a question about parsing? And say in your question that you already have the response string?

[Darin Dimitrov]

@Ramesh, that's exactly what I have shown in my answer. Did you read it? You use the GetAsync method to send a GET request and then the JsonObject.Parse method to parse the returned JSON string.

[Ramesh]

@musefan Actually I already had for POST. Just now figured out I can reuse for GET also.

[Darin Dimitrov]

@musefan, answering a question depends on my mood. Now I am in a good mood, so I answer all kind of questions.

[Simple]

@DarinDimitrov Visual Studio complains about the return type it should be a JsonValue instead of a JsonObject.

[Simple]

@DarinDimitrov This is bad code as it blocks a background thread, I reproduced your code and it blocked my application, see: ben-morris.com/…