.net HttpClient with custom JsonConverter

Question

I\'m using .NET\'s HttpClient to make requests to a WebAPI that returns some JSON data that requires a little bit of custom deserialization on the client\'s side. For this

Answer 1

I was able to add a custom JsonConverter to the default formatters for HttpClient with the following:

MediaTypeFormatterCollection formatters = new MediaTypeFormatterCollection(); 
formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.Converters.Add(new MyCustomConverter());


var result = response.Content.ReadAsAsync<T>(formatters).Result;

This seemed to allow you to just add your custom converter to the default converters.

Answer 2

May be you would like to use HttpClient.GetStringAsync Method (String)

var response = client.GetStringAsync("api/sites/" + sid);
return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PrefsResponse>(response.Result, new  PrefClassJsonConverter());

Or what exactly you want to be more elegant?

Answer 3

You can pass the JsonSerializerSettings with the list of your converters to the JsonMediaTypeFormatter which will be used by ReadAsAsync<T>:

i.e.

var obj = await result.Content.ReadAsAsync<refsResponse>(
    new[] {new JsonMediaTypeFormatter {
          SerializerSettings = new JsonSerializerSettings { 
              Converters = new List<JsonConverter> {
                //list of your converters
               }
             } 
          }
    });