Overview

RapidAPI is the world's first opensource API marketplace. It allows developers to discover and connect to the world's top APIs more easily and manage multiple API connections in one place.

.Net SDK

First of all, install the sdk using NuGet. There are two ways for doing that.The first one is using the NuGet Package Manager console, and the other is using the VIsual Studio Extension.

NuGet Package Manager Console

run the following command in the console to install the sdk and its dependencies:

PM> Install-Package RapidAPISDK

NuGet Visual Studio Extension

Follow the steps bellow:

1. In the Solution Explorer, right-click your project and then click on Manage NuGet Packages for Solution...

2. Enter the Browse tag and then in the search box, type "RapidAPISDK" and hit enter.

3. After the search completes, find the sdk, check the righ box and click install.

Initialization

Import RapidAPISDK by putting the following code in the head of your file

#using RapidAPISDK;

Now initialize it using:

private static RapidAPI RapidApi = new RapidAPI("PROJECT", "TOKEN");

Usage

First of all, we will prepare the body, we will use Array which You can add as many arguments as you wish due to the API requirements. In this example we generated a list and send it as an array.

var body = new List<Parameter>()
{
   new DataParameter("parameterName1", "value1"),
   new FileParameter("parameterName2", "value2"),
   new DataParameter("parameterName3", "value3")
};

Note: You have two kinds of parameters you can send - Data or File. A File parameter can be a file stream or a file path and Data parameter is any other parameter.

To use any block in the marketplace, just copy it's code snippet and paste it in your code. For example, the following is the snippet for the NasaAPI.getPictureOfTheDay block:

try
{
   var res = RapidApi.Call("NasaAPI", "getPictureOfTheDay", body.ToArray()).Result;
   object payload;
   if (res.TryGetValue("success", out payload)){
       Console.WriteLine("success: " + payload);
   else
   {
       res.TryGetValue("error", out payload);
       Console.WriteLine("error: " + payload);
   }
}
catch (RapidAPIServerException e)
{
   Console.WriteLine("Server error: " + e);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
   Console.WriteLine("Unknown exeption: " + e);
}

Notice that the error event will also be called if you make an invalid block call (for example - the package you refer to does not exist).

Using Files

Whenever a block in RapidAPI requires a file, you can either pass a URL to the file, a path to the file or a read stream.

URL

The following code will call the block MicrosoftComputerVision.analyzeImage with a URL of an image:

var subscriptionKey = new DataParameter("subscriptionKey", "********");
var image = new DataParameter("image", "http://cdn.litlepups.net/2015/08/31/cute-dog-baby-wallpaper-hd-21.jpg");
var width = new DataParameter("width", "50");
var height = new DataParameter("height", "50");
var smartCropping = new DataParameter("smartCropping");

var analyze = Call("MicrosoftComputerVision", "analyzeImage", subscriptionKey, image, width, height, smartCropping);

Post File

If the file is locally stored, you can just use this line instead:

var image = new FileParameter("image", "IMAGE_PATH");  

Or you can post a file as a stream:

var image =  new FileParameter("image", stream, "IMAGE_NAME");

##Issues:

As this is a pre-release version of the SDK, you may expirience bugs. Please report them in the issues section to let us know. You may use the intercom chat on rapidapi.com for support at any time.

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