How to Consume Web API Using Web Request

Raj Kumar
Jul 04, 2013
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This article explains how to consume a Web API using a Web Request and deserialize it in JSON and bind data in a grid view.

Getting Started

Create a new project in Visual Studio 2012 and select "Empty ASP.NET Web Application" and click "OK".

First of all add two classes:

public class wrapper

{

public List<SalesPerson> salesperson { get; set; }

}

public class SalesPerson

{

public String Code { get; set; }

public String databaseID { get; set; }

public String name { get; set; }

public String path { get; set; }

public String definition { get; set; }

}

Now add your web api URL:

string _URL = "https://api.icarol.com/v1/Resource/Taxonomy?db=2285";

Now drag and drop a GridView data control onto the page.

Now add these namespaces:

using System.IO;

using System.Web.Script.Serialization;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

       WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(_URL);
       req.Method = "GET";
       req.Headers.Add("key");
req.ContentType = "application/json; charset=utf-8";

WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
Stream stream = resp.GetResponseStream();

StreamReader re = new StreamReader(stream);

String json = re.ReadToEnd();

json = "{\"SalesPerson\":" + json + "}";

wrapper w = (wrapper)new JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize(json, typeof(wrapper));

GridView1.DataSource = w.salesperson;

GridView1.DataBind();

}

GridView

<asp:GridView ID="GridView1" runat="server" Width="500px" CellPadding="4" ForeColor="#333333" GridLines="None" EmptyDataText="Data Not Found">