C# Example to get a persons time

Were you able to connect to the Intervals API and successfully get a list of people?

Have you written C# code in the past where you were successfully able to connect to a RESTful API?

Unfortunately, C# is not my forte, but here's some sample code I found for making a sample GET request using C#:


HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://api.myintervals.com/person/") as HttpWebRequest;
request.Accept = "application/xml";
request.ContentType = "application/xml";
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("API_TOKEN", "x");

using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) {
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
// do something with the response
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
}


Of course, you'll have to add your own code to parse the response from the StreamReader object, including appropriate error handling to account for failed requests. And I would try bypassing the proxy until you've made a successful connection, and I wouldn't use it unless you absolutely need to.

If you get that to work, the person resource used in the code above will give you a list of people, along with their personids. Then, you can use the time resource to get the list of time for a particular user for a date range. The URI for that request will look something like this:


https://api.myintervals.com/time/?personid=9999&datebegin=2011-01-01&dateend=2001-04-30


But let's not get ahead of ourselves. Work on making the simple request for the list of persons work first.

Cameron

Hey Imran,

Try removing the following line:


request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("<APITOKEN>")));


The reason is that you're supplying authorization twice, and your second implementation is incorrect and overriding the first implementation. Use the NetworkCredential object rather than manually entering the Authorization header.

Cameron

imran,

The token needs a : (colon) right after. The left side is the user name and the password is to the right. We don't make use of the password so the string should look like:

System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("APITOKEN:")

// Create the web request
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://api.myintervals.com/person/") as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "GET";
request.Accept = "application/xml";
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("APITOKEN:")));

// Get response
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
// Get the response stream
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

// Console application output
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
}