Static OOP

Tech Jerk

16:41

Hello Mat

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huzzah!

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Sorry for troubling you. But I think I am not effectively conveyed about what I am doing

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no problem, lunch time, I'm on my phone

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<add key ="ValidatePassword" value="<url>?id=MyUserId&password=MyPassword"/> is a REST url

thanks

will you please help me on how actually I need to create a GET call using the about url?

The problem is I am not sure about how to form a REST url

I mean form a REST url to consume it in my application

I am not developing the REST but I am using it

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hmm I know my C#, but I don't do web dev.. not sure I can help here.

looks like you're building a query string.. I'm 99.99999% sure passing a password in there isn't a very good idea

but if that's what the service requires..

Tech Jerk

16:47

Ok, the reason why I went for a static MyUserId, MyPassword is to replace the same with actual values while forming the complete url

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doesn't have to be static

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yes it called as query string :) but part of the query string will vary...

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in fact, they should be implementation details, encapsulated in an object that takes constructor parameters and exposes a method that returns the full url

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I mean <url>?id=MyUserId&password=MyPassword"/> is to validate user credentials <url>?id=UserId"/> to get user details

so I am trying to write a generic method that will get what url (validate user or user detail) and the corresponding parameters. Eg. for validate user, the parameters are userid and password and for user detail, the parameter is userid. so this generic method will get the url and the respective parameter(s) and do the replace logic to form the complete url

public static string BuildCompleteUri(this string source, IDictionary<string, object> uriParameters)
{

var completeUri = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[source];
foreach (var uriparameter in uriParameters)
{
completeUri.Replace(uriParameter.Key, uriParameter.Value.ToString());
}
}

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I see

why not use string.Format placeholders instead of Replace?

"?id={0}&amp;password={1}"

Tech Jerk

16:57

For ex to get a user detail the url here will be "http://<someurl>/user/Id=Userid?" so in the dictionary key will be "UserId" and value will be "234" and source string will be url I mentioned above

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and then you can just string.Format(completeUri, id, password)

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there are rest url's that takes too many parameters

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I'm sure the framework has something to build query strings though.. using string.Replace just doesn't feel right

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so I personally believe it will be hard to maintain the sequence, if it is a Replace I don't have to worry about sequence and the replace will handle it smoothly

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A: How to build a query string for a URL in C#?

If you look under the hood the QueryString property is a NameValueCollection. When I've done similar things I've usually been interested in serialising AND deserialising so my suggestion is to build a NameValueCollection up and then pass to: using System.Web; using System.Collections.Specialized...

possibly relevant

Tech Jerk

16:59

thanks will look at it.

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oh that looks even better:

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A: How to build a query string for a URL in C#?

You can create a new writeable instance of HttpValueCollection by calling System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty), and then use it as any NameValueCollection. Once you have added the values you want, you can call ToString on the collection to get a query string, as follows: NameVal...

NameValueCollection queryString = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

queryString["key1"] = "value1";
queryString["key2"] = "value2";

return queryString.ToString(); // Returns "key1=value1&key2=value2", all URL-encoded

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the second seems to the one that could fit me

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but my point was mostly that you need to find a way to get rid of all these public static variables ;-)

globals are not very oop

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:) sure will keeping try to understand oop and code accordingly

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Keep hanging around on Code Review, and posting your working code there!

Tech Jerk

17:07

ofcourse I will. An huge chance to learn and help each other :)

Thanks Mat. you made my day. You too have a nice day!

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I'm sure you'll get more answers on that post, too. Covering everything in one answer isn't something that happens often :)

Oh and come to The 2nd Monitor anytime, too!

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Thank you :)

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