Introduction
Because [nancy does not seem to support][1] named url parameters but only url segments and easyhttp makes it’s urls with named parameters only, I decided to add this feature to easyhttp.
Url with named parameters
http://localhost/trees?Id=1
Url with segments
http://localhost/trees/1
How it works
You used to be able to do this.
var http = new HttpClient();
http.Request.Accept = HttpContentTypes.ApplicationJson;
var result = http.Get("http://localhost/trees", new {Id = 1} );```
Which resulted in easyhttp creating a url for you that looked like this.
http://localhost/trees?Id=1
From version 1.6.30.0 onwards you can do this.
```csharp
var http = new HttpClient();
http.Request.Accept = HttpContentTypes.ApplicationJson;
http.Request.ParametersAsSegments = true;
var result = http.Get("http://localhost/trees", new {Id = 1});```
Note that the line http.Request.ParametersAsSegments is now true. That property is false by default, as one would expect from a boolean.
Which will result in a url looking like this.
http://localhost/trees/1
Note that the order of the propertie in the object you are passing is important.
```csharp
var result = http.Get("http://localhost/trees", new {Id = 1, Name = "test"});```
Will result in.
http://localhost/trees/1/test
While
```csharp
var result = http.Get("http://localhost/trees", new {Name = "test", Id = 1});```
Will result in.
http://localhost/trees/test/1
## Conclusion
Thanks to Hadi for letting me do this.
<span class="MT_red">PS:</span> I added a whole lot of documentation to easyhttp in [the github wiki][2].
<span class="MT_red">PS2:</span> And I want to also note that I don’t like markdown.
<span class="MT_red">PS3:</span> And that all the code in this post is C#.
[1]: /index.php/WebDev/ServerProgramming/nancy-and-vb-net-using
[2]: https://github.com/hhariri/EasyHttp/wiki
Chris is awesome.