HL Interactive (HLi) Source Code Readme Copyright © HL Interactive 2015, Thomas Hagström, Horisontvägen 85, Stockholm, Sweden

HLI.Data

HL Interactive (HLi) data operations project.

Purpose and Scope

Typed HttpClient and other portable .net client utilities.

Usage

HliHttpClient

HttpClient with strongly typed request / response. It also parses HTTP errors and throws friendly Exceptions.

Typed GET Request

var client = new HliHttpClient("http://httpbin.org/", "ip");
var result = await client.GetDataAsTypeAsync<IpResponse>();

Typed POST Request

var client = new HliHttpClient("http://httpbin.org/", "post");
var result = await client.PostDataAsTypeAsync<HttpBinPost>();

Delivery & Deployment

Download the nuget package through Package Manager Console:

install-package HLI.Data

Dependencies

• Projects
• Packages
  • HLI.Core
  • Microsoft.Net.Http
  • Newtonsoft.Json

NuGet Package Generation

The project HLI.Data is configured to automatically generate a *.nupkg upon build with dotnet cli.

Solution File Structure

• HLI.Data - solution root folder
  • HLI.Data (Portable) - main project. Depends on Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client
    • Clients - contain helper classes for constructing clients for web services HTTP, WCF etc.
    • Extensions - data layer related extensions.
  • HLI.Data.Tests.Integration - integration tests for this solution

Changes and backward compatibility

1.0.5.0

• Converted to netcore: multi-target netstandard 1.4 & PCL.

1.0.4.3

• Removed invalid Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client reference (fixing Android errors).
• Optimized Json Serialization / Deserialization

1.0.4.2

• Newtonsoft.Json is now set to Copy local = False to prevent conflicts. Ensure the above package is installed and referenced in the platform project.

• Constructors for HliHttpClient are now completely revised to prevent ambigus constructor issues. Usage might need to be updated.

• Added support for different type request / response in PostDataAsTypeAsync

Unit Tests

Unit Tests as well as integration tests should be placed in solution root.