Are there any samples showing best practices for using the REST API from a .net application? Is it possible to use XML-RPC.net?

Thanks!

Michael,

We recently added an example in C# provided to us by Lance Sun. You can find the example here:

http://unfuddle.com/docs/api/code_examples

It is a fairly basic example showing how to establish a connection and retrieve a resource in XML format. As with all our examples, if anyone wants to provide more robust versions, we would certainly be glad to post them.

I hope that helps and have a Happy New Year!

A little late I know but here’s a snippet to get you going… hope it helps.

John Newcombe

http://www.waymex.co.uk

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

public partial class Ticket : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    private const string API_URL = "http://<domain>.unfuddle.com/api/v1/";
    private const string API_USER = "user";
    private const string API_PASSWORD = "password";

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }
    protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //get the collection of projects
        GetProjects();

        //get the tikets for a given project ID
        GetTickets(25128);

        //create a new ticket
        SetTicket(25128, "Test API Ticket", "This is a test API Ticket for web users", 5);

    }
    public void GetProjects()
    {
       string method = "projects.xml";
       string result = Get(API_USER, API_PASSWORD, API_URL + method);

        XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
        xmlDoc.LoadXml(result);
        xmlDoc.Save(@"e:\AJAXEnabledWebSite1\projects.xml");

    }
    public void GetTickets(int projectId)
    {
        string method = @"projects/" + projectId.ToString() + "/tickets.xml";
        string result = Get(API_USER, API_PASSWORD, API_URL + method);

        XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
        xmlDoc.LoadXml(result);
        xmlDoc.Save(@"e:\AJAXEnabledWebSite1\tickets.xml");

    }
    public void SetTicket(int projectId,string summary, string description, int priority)
    {
        string method = @"projects/" + projectId.ToString() + "/tickets.xml";

        //create the xml
        string xml = String.Format(@"<ticket>
                                        <description>{0}</description>
                                        <priority>{1}</priority>
                                        <project-id>{2}</project-id>
                                        <summary>{3}</summary>
                                    </ticket>",
                                    description,
                                    priority.ToString(),
                                    projectId.ToString(),
                                    summary);

        string result = Post(API_USER, API_PASSWORD, API_URL + method, xml);

        if (result == string.Empty)
        {
            //all OK
        }
        else
        {
            //a problem has occured
        }

    }

    private string Post(string username, string password, string url, string xml)
    {
        string basicAuth = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(String.Format("{0}:{1}", username, password)));

        //create the web request
        WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
        request.Proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
        request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + basicAuth);
        request.ContentType = "application/xml";
        request.ContentLength = xml.Length;
        request.Method = "POST";

        //get the request stream
        Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream();

        //convert the xml to an array of bytes
        System.Text.Encoding enc = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;
        byte[] xmlArray = enc.GetBytes(xml);

        //write the array to the request straem
        stream.Write(xmlArray, 0, xmlArray.Length);

        //get the response
        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

        return reader.ReadToEnd();

    }

    private string Get(string username, string password, string url)
    {
        string basicAuth = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(String.Format("{0}:{1}", username, password)));

        WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
        request.Proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
        request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + basicAuth);

        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();

        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

        return reader.ReadToEnd();

    }
}

I guess this is mentioned elsewhere. However, whilst finding my feet with this stuff, I realised that it is best to put the description and summary text in a CDATA sections.

Take a look at Unfuddle.NET that I’m putting together. Comments welcome.