What is WebApiClient?
WebApiClient is a simple and powerful .NET Portable Library built to work as a middle layer between your application and a RESTFul service, like the Microsoft WebApi. It provides methods to make asynchronous, typed WebApi requests using the HttpClient class. It takes care of all the logic to create the request, wait for the response, handle exceptions and convert the response into an object, leaving you free of writing repetitive code.
- It is portable. Supports .NET Framework 4.5+, Windows 8+ Apps, Windows Phone Silverlight 8+, Windows Phone 8.1
- Supports any kind of RESTful service, not only Microsoft WebApi
- Ready to work with services that use ASP.NET Identity security
- Easy installation using NugGet
- Supports Json and Xml serialization/deserialization
- Supports the verbs GET, POST, PUT and DELETE
- Easy to extend functionalities
- Comes with WindowsIntegratedAuthentication (Negotiate, NTLM, Basic, Kerberos) and BearerTokenAuthentication
- Easy to send or receive cookies