Refit
The automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET. Heavily inspired by Square's Retrofit library, Refit turns your REST API into a live interface. (by reactiveui)
RestSharp
Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET (by restsharp)
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33 | 13 | |
8,090 | 9,438 | |
2.3% | 0.6% | |
8.2 | 6.0 | |
6 days ago | 6 days ago | |
C# | C# | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Refit
Posts with mentions or reviews of Refit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
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Exception Handling in C# Methods returning object
A lot of people have given you good replies, but have you looked at Refit?
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Http calls on mobile, what is the preferred way / best practice
Another question that rises is, would it be better to use some HttpClient package to handle the requests, like Refit in combination with Polly. But then again, it seems Refit also uses the HttpClient factory, which was a bad thing according to the previous?
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Refactor your dotNET HTTP Clients to Typed HTTP Clients
Define a Refit client interface with the following for each API endpoint, e.g. GET /foo:
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HttpClient best approach
Use RestEase to create your own client library. Refit is a very similar and more popular library. IMO RestEase is an improvement over Refit and I prefer it, but either will solve your problems. Both are libs that have you build interfaces describing the API endpoints, then the library handles all the boilerplate code that calls HttpClient.
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What your hidden nuget gems ?
Refit - simple, typed REST clients: https://github.com/reactiveui/refit
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how to structure code for rest api calls
I'd advise using this https://github.com/reactiveui/refit tool for HTTP requests. It saves a lot of time for serialization, deserialization and exception handling.
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Roadmap for transition from Java
Use Refit, and let manage the live of HttpClient. Also, Refit will give you a strongly typed client around an API. All you have to write is the interface. Ain't that neat ? If you can't, use the HttpClientFactory to create the HttpClient instance: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/microservices/implement-resilient-applications/use-httpclientfactory-to-implement-resilient-http-requests
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ASP.NET Core - how to properly make a GET request?
Use RestEase to create your own client library. Refit is a very similar and more popular library. IMO RestEase is an improvement over Refit and I prefer it, but either will solve your problems. Both are libs that have you build interfaces describing the API endpoints, then the library handles all the boilerplate code that calls HttpClient.
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Integration tests without API dependencies with ASP.NET Core and WireMock.Net
The controller is simple and use the Refit library to abstract the PokéAPI call and then, returns the data.
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I love refit
To be fair, Refit is pretty great.
RestSharp
Posts with mentions or reviews of RestSharp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-20.
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Building a Gateway to Netflix API: A Developer's Guide
RestSharp
- C# sync over async implementations
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ASP.NET Core - how to properly make a GET request?
Use RestSharp to create a client library. It requires you to write more code, but it's still a lot less boilerplate than using HttpClient directly.
- static HttpClient inside a using statement?
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The risks of using vulnerable dependencies in your project, and how SCA helps manage them
Let's say we have a simple web app that uses RestSharp, a fairly well-known REST API client library for .NET.
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Benchmarks Clients Http
RestSharp:
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Is there a way to consume a webservice with a console application in C#
Are you consuming REST or SOAP web services? For REST APIs you can use https://restsharp.dev/.
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Help on deserializing an api response for different classes
Can you not specify the type in the execute call, and see if you can inspect the response? var response = await client.ExecuteAsync(request); I’m on mobile so formatting, but if this is the same client, I just looked at some tests that could suggest this maybe possible https://github.com/restsharp/RestSharp/blob/dev/test/RestSharp.IntegrationTests/RequestBodyTests.cs
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how to use MyAnimeList's API in dotnet 6
A way to read a rest API. If I were in your shoes, I'd probably play with RestSharp: https://restsharp.dev/
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Send postcards with C# and Flurl
On line 16, we append the endpoint that we are going to connect to. In this example, we hit the “/addresses” endpoint. On line 17, we authenticate to Lob using Basic Authentication. Our Lob API key is placed where the username would be and we leave the password empty. Flurl sets the basic-auth headers using the WithBasicAuth method. For those using RestSharp it looks like this.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Refit and RestSharp you can also consider the following projects:
Flurl.Http - Fluent URL builder and testable HTTP client for .NET
RestEase - Easy-to-use typesafe REST API client library for .NET Standard 1.1 and .NET Framework 4.5 and higher, which is simple and customisable. Inspired by Refit
NSwag - The Swagger/OpenAPI toolchain for .NET, ASP.NET Core and TypeScript.
Ocelot - .NET API Gateway
Simple.OData.Client
EasyHttp - Http Library for C#
Polly - Polly is a .NET resilience and transient-fault-handling library that allows developers to express policies such as Retry, Circuit Breaker, Timeout, Bulkhead Isolation, and Fallback in a fluent and thread-safe manner. From version 6.0.1, Polly targets .NET Standard 1.1 and 2.0+.
RestClient.Net - .NET REST Client Framework for all platforms