damaged-thunder/server/Library/RestApiRequester.cs

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.Json;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace gameapi.Library
{
    public class RestApiRequester
    {
        public async Task<dynamic> GetJson(string url)
        {
            var contentString = string.Empty;
            var client = new HttpClient();
            try
            {
                var response = await client.GetAsync(url);


                contentString = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<dynamic>(contentString);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Issue with making the curl; I tried " + url);
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
                contentString = $"Something went wrong: {e.Message}";
            }
            return contentString;
        }

        public async Task<dynamic> GetString(string url)
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            try
            {
                var response = await client.GetAsync(url);


                return await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Issue with making the curl; I tried '{url}'.");
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
                return $"Something went wrong: {e.Message}";
            }
        }

        public async Task PostJson(string url, dynamic data)
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            try
            {
                var content = new StringContent(JsonSerializer.Serialize(data), Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
                await client.PostAsync(url, content);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Issue with making the post; I tried '{url}'.");
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }
        }
    }
}