.NET Rest Client Frameworks

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I'm looking for the best .NET C# framework for building a REST Http client. My requirements are as follows:

Unit testable (mockable)
Supports multi-part form and file uploads

I have looked at Hammock, but it is lacking in documentation and seems to be troublesome when attempting to mock file uploads.

Any suggestions, please?

That Hammock link is dead BTW. I found the new [official Hammock page](https://github.com/danielcrenna/hammock) on Github but the author added a message on 2/19/2012 that he's not updating it anymore. There are some forks but none that are very active. — Brent Matzelle, Mar 23 '12 at 15:44

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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There is also RestSharp. I've inherited it on some projects and haven't fully explored it myself, so I'm afraid I cannot say if it meets your requirements.

The developer of RestSharp is active in the .Net community, so if the published documentation doesn't cover something I would say there is a good chance of getting some assistance.

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answered Nov 01 '10 at 22:30

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I have looked at RestSharp. Does anybody know if there are any examples of mocking RestSharp clients? I see there are a few libraries that the author has put out (for services like Notifo) which have zero test coverage. – epoch Nov 01 '10 at 22:34
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I'm the RestSharp dev. Our file uploads is not tested very well. We also don't do mocking very well, unless you want to build a custom IRestClient or IHttp implementation. If those are your two biggest concerns, I would go with Hammock. – John Sheehan Nov 01 '10 at 22:34
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See my comment above. The Hammock author is no longer updating the project so RestSharp or Spring.Rest might be the better bet at this date and time. – Brent Matzelle Mar 23 '12 at 15:46
RestSharp -> ServiceStack recommendation (Jul '13 post comment, seems to remain valid as of Dec '18 based on other reading): https://stackoverflow.com/a/10118120/8352092 – dthal Dec 24 '18 at 19:57

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 21 '11 at 12:58

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You can also take a look to Spring.Rest client Framework : http://springframework.net/index.html#spring-rest-1.0.0-released

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answered Apr 21 '11 at 12:48

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Spring.Rest official project page: [http://www.springframework.net/rest/](http://www.springframework.net/rest/) – Brent Matzelle Mar 23 '12 at 15:49

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 01 '10 at 23:13

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Also take a look at the Microsoft.Http client in http://wcf.codeplex.com/ It will be included in future versions of the framework. It is relatively easy to unit test with.

answered Nov 01 '10 at 23:13

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+1 Now in ASP.NET MVC. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/henrikn/archive/2012/02/16/httpclient-is-here.aspx for an example from a guy close to the dev of it – Ruben Bartelink Apr 16 '12 at 10:32

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '10 at 09:13

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I have just submitted a patch for the aforementioned problem with mocking file uploads using Hammock and has been accepted into the trunk. See issue 13 for more details.

answered Nov 03 '10 at 09:13

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 08 '16 at 23:52

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Microsoft HTTP Client Libraries is good option to consider.

Nuget URL - https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Net.Http/

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 22 '20 at 22:19

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Check the Flurl library https://flurl.dev/ Flurl is available on NuGet and is free for commercial use. It runs on a wide variety of platforms, including .NET Framework, .NET Core, Xamarin, and UWP.

answered Jan 22 '20 at 22:19

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