How to Test Podio Webhooks Locally

Question

I am wanting to test Podio webhooks locally. I am using Conveyor.cloud for tunneling and tested it successfully with their Twilio example. The problem I am having with converting the code to work with Podio is that the Twilio example used a Controller and the Podio webhook example at http://podio.github.io/podio-dotnet/webhooks/ uses IHttpHandler.

I tried implementing IHttpHandler to the controller in the code below and it's not working.

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using PodioAPI;

namespace WebhooksProject.Controllers
{
    public class WebController : IHttpHandler
    {
        public static string clientId = "abcd";
        public static string clientSecret = "abcd";
        public static string username = "a@b.com";
        public static string password = "abcd";

        public static Podio podio = new Podio(clientId, clientSecret);

        public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
        {
            podio.AuthenticateWithPassword(username, password);

            var request = context.Request;

            switch (request["type"])
            {
                case "hook.verify":
                    podio.HookService.ValidateHookVerification(int.Parse(request["hook_id"]), request["code"]);
                    break;
                // An item was created
                case "item.create":
                    // For item events you will get "item_id", "item_revision_id" and "external_id". in post params
                    int itemIdOfCreatedItem = int.Parse(request["item_id"]);
                    // Fetch the item and do what ever you want
                    break;

                // An item was updated
                case "item.update":
                    // For item events you will get "item_id", "item_revision_id" and "external_id". in post params
                    int itemIdOfUpdatedItem = int.Parse(request["item_id"]);
                    // Fetch the item and do what ever you want
                    break;

                // An item was deleted    
                case "item.delete":
                    // For item events you will get "item_id", "item_revision_id" and "external_id". in post params
                    int deletedItemId = int.Parse(request["item_id"]);
                    break;
            }
        }

        public bool IsReusable
        {
            get{return false;}
        }
    }
}

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You can do as below instead of using HttpContext. I basically use requestbin to get the request then try it directly using Postman.

    [HttpPost]
    public HttpResponseMessage ProcessRequest(PodioHook hook)
    {
        var oAuth = _podio.AuthenticateWithApp(_appId, _appToken); // keep the oauth if you are reusing it.

        switch (hook.type)
        {
            case "hook.verify":
                _podio.HookService.ValidateHookVerification(hook.hook_id, hook.code);
                break;
            // An item was created
            case "item.create":
                // For item events you will get "item_id", "item_revision_id" and "external_id". in post params
                long itemIdOfCreatedItem = hook.item_id;
                // Fetch the item and do what ever you want
                break;

            // An item was updated
            case "item.update":
                // For item events you will get "item_id", "item_revision_id" and "external_id". in post params
                long itemIdOfUpdatedItem = hook.item_id;
                // Fetch the item and do what ever you want
                break;

            // An item was deleted    
            case "item.delete":
                // For item events you will get "item_id", "item_revision_id" and "external_id". in post params
                long deletedItemId = hook.item_id;
                break;
        }

        return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK);
    }

my PodioHook model will looks like below

public class PodioHook
{
    public string code { get; set; }
    public string type { get; set; }
    public long item_id { get; set; }
    public int hook_id { get; set; }
}

.NET framework will take care of the request to model conversion.

link to request bin https://requestbin.com/