Deserializing JSON from RestSharp response

Question

I am receiving a JSON result from this API web page (https://flagrantflop.com/api/endpoint.php?api_key=13b6ca7fa0e3cd29255e044b167b01d7&scope=team_stats&season=2019-2020&season_type=regular&team_name=Atlanta%20Hawks)

Using the RestSharp library, so far I've got this:

var client = new RestClient("https://flagrantflop.com/api/endpoint.php?api_key=13b6ca7fa0e3cd29255e044b167b01d7&scope=team_stats&season=2019-2020&season_type=regular&team_name=");

var request = new RestRequest("Atlanta Hawks", DataFormat.Json);

var response = client.Get(request);

I have tested the URL and the request part that specifies the team and both work.

I know there are a number of methods of deserializing the JSON, however not sure the best way.

Answer 1

The request isn't working because the argument you're supplying in RestRequest is treated as its own page stemming off the base URI.

You can verify that by calling client.BuildUri(request) with your current setup―you'll see that the resolved URL is https://flagrantflop.com/api/Atlanta Hawks, which is why you weren't getting the proper JSON response. I recommend rewriting the request like this, but there are other valid ways:

var client = new RestClient("https://flagrantflop.com/api/")
    .AddDefaultQueryParameter("api_key", "13b6ca7fa0e3cd29255e044b167b01d7")
    .AddDefaultQueryParameter("scope", "team_stats")
    .AddDefaultQueryParameter("season", "2019-2020")
    .AddDefaultQueryParameter("season_type", "regular");

var request = new RestRequest("endpoint.php")
    .AddQueryParameter("team_name", "Atlanta Hawks");

After that, you can have RestSharp automatically deserialize your response:

RootObject response = client.Get<RootObject>(request);

By default, this uses SimpleJson to deserialize your object.