How do I set up HttpContent for my HttpClient PostAsync second parameter?

Question

public static async Task GetData(string url, string data)
{
    UriBuilder fullUri = new UriBuilder(url);

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data))
                


        

Answer 1

To add to Preston's answer, here's the complete list of the HttpContent derived classes available in the standard library:

Credit: https://pfelix.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/the-new-system-net-http-classes-message-content/

There's also a supposed ObjectContent but I was unable to find it in ASP.NET Core.

Of course, you could skip the whole HttpContent thing all together with Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client extensions (you'll have to do an import to get it to work in ASP.NET Core for now: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/1558) and then you can do things like:

var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync("AddNewArticle", new Article
{
    Title = "New Article Title",
    Body = "New Article Body"
});