How to POST to RESTful API with Windows Phone 8 - rest

Question

Can anyone point me to a working example of how to POST JSON to a RESTful API (e.g. Web API) using Windows Phone 8? I have a working example for GET but can't seem to find any working examples for POST. All of the POST examples I've found for C# don't work on Windows Phone 8 (due to the stripped down .NET framework).

Answer 1

Ok, I was finally able to come up with a working solution so I wanted to post it back for completeness. However, if anyone knows of a better way to do this in Windows Phone 8, I'd love to see it!
public void SendPost(Uri uri, string json)
{
var webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] = "application/json";
webClient.UploadStringCompleted += this.sendPostCompleted;
webClient.UploadStringAsync(uri, "POST", json);
}
private void sendPostCompleted(object sender, UploadStringCompletedEventArgs e)
{
// Handle result
Console.WriteLine("HTTP POST Result: {0}", e.Result);
}

Answer 2

The best way to do that would be to use Restsharp:
Dim client As New RestSharp.RestClient("https://stuff.com/api/")
Dim req As New RestSharp.RestRequest("dothings", Method.POST)
req.RequestFormat = DataFormat.Json
req.AddBody(New reqAuth With {.param1 = "stuff1", .param2= "stuff2"})
client.ExecuteAsync(req, Sub(res)
Console.WriteLine(res.Content)
End Sub)

Answer 3

string email = txtEmailAddress.Text;
string password = txtPassword.Text;
string confirmPassword = txtConfirmPassword.Text;
string dd = txtDD.Text;
string mm = txtMM.Text;
string yyyy = txtYYYY.Text;
UserDetails ud = new UserDetails
{
DateofBirth = DateTime.Now.ToString(),
EmailAddress=email,
Password=password,
ProfileImage="",
UserID="0"
};
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
wc.Headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json";
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
DataContractJsonSerializer serializertoUpload = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(UserDetails));
serializertoUpload.WriteObject(ms, ud);
string data = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray(), 0, (int)ms.Length);
wc.UploadStringAsync(new Uri("<wcfserviceurl>"), "POST", data);
Here is the definition of UserDetails class
public class UserDetails
{
public string UserID { get; set; }
public string EmailAddress { get; set; }
public string Password { get; set; }
public string DateofBirth { get; set; }
public string ProfileImage { get; set; }
}

Answer 4

public async void makeRequest(String resourceUri)
{
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
try
{
HttpResponseMessage response = await httpClient.GetAsync(resourceUri);
}
catch (HttpRequestException hre)
{
Console.Write(hre.Message);
}
catch (TaskCanceledException)
{
}
}
remember to add Nuget packages: httpclient