README.TXT

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Ramone - A C# library for working with REST services and Web APIs
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Ramone is a C# library that simplifies access to HTTP based Web APIs and REST
services. It has a strong focus on REST and hypermedia and implements elements 
of the Uniform Interface as first class citizens of the API.

Ramone has built-in support for serialization of simple objects as JSON, XML, 
URL-encoding and multipart encoding.

Ramone works with .NET Standard 2.0 and supports async/await construct

This means natural support for

- URIs as identifiers for resources.
- The standard HTTP methods GET, POST, PUT and more.
- Multiple media types (XML, JSON, HTML, ATOM, multipart, urlencoded and more).
- User defined media types.
- Hyper media controls (linking and key/value forms).
- Automatic redirect handling.
- File up/download.
- Asynchronous requests

What Ramone does is to wrap the inner workings of HTTP (using .NET's 
HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse classes) and make encoding and decoding easier 
through the use of codecs for the various formats used on the web.

In its most simple form you can GET a resource like this:

  // Define resource type
  class Cat
  {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public DateTime DateOfBirth { get; set; }
  }

  // Create session pointing to service root
  ISession Session = RamoneConfiguration.NewSession(new Uri("http://cat-example.com"));

  // Setup HTTP request
  Request req = Session.Bind("/cat/{name}", new { name = "Mike" });

  // Make actual request
  using (var resp = req.AcceptXml().Get<Cat>())
  {
    Cat c = resp.Body;
    Console.WriteLine("Cat with name={0} was born on={1:d}.", c.Name, c.DateOfBirth);
  }

See more examples here: https://github.com/JornWildt/Ramone/wiki/Examples.

Happy hacking.

Jorn Wildt


DOWNLOAD
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Binaries are available on NuGet:

  NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Ramone


DOCUMENTATION
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I am trying to write a complete downloadable manual which is available as a PDF. You can
either download that together with the binaries via the links above or access the nightly
build here: http://elfisk.dk/Ramone/Documentation/Ramone.pdf

There are some online examples on the GitHub wiki: https://github.com/JornWildt/Ramone/wiki/Examples

In addition to this there is a few blog posts:

  Consuming Web APIs in C# with Ramone
  http://soabits.blogspot.com/2012/04/consuming-web-apis-in-c-with-ramone.html

  Introducing the Ramone C# Library for Web API Clients 
  http://soabits.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-ramone-c-library-for-web.html

  Ramone: Consuming Hyper-Media REST Services in C#
  http://soabits.blogspot.com/2012/04/ramone-consuming-hyper-media-rest.html

  JSON-Patch support in Ramone 
  http://soabits.blogspot.dk/2013/01/json-patch-support-in-ramone.html

  Using Ramone for OAuth2 authorization with Google APIs
  http://soabits.blogspot.dk/2013/03/using-ramone-for-oauth2-authorization.html

  Asynchronous HTTP requests using Ramone
  http://soabits.blogspot.dk/2013/04/asynchronous-http-requests-using-ramone.html

The name "Ramone" was inspired by the character "Ramone" in the movie "Cars".
In the movie Ramone is an easy going car. Hopefully you will find using the 
Ramone library just as easy going. You are of course also free to associate 
Ramone with the punk band "The Ramones" if that suits you better :-)


USING
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Add a reference to the Ramone NuGet package and you are up and running.


BUILDING
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Here is how to build Ramone from scratch:

1) Download the source from GitHub (https://github.com/JornWildt/Ramone).
2) Open "Ramone.sln" and build the whole project.
   - This builds the core Ramone.dll and additional test projects


SIMILAR PROJECTS
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- RestSharp http://restsharp.org/
- RestFulie http://restfulie.caelum.com.br/
- RESTAgent http://restagent.codeplex.com/
- Dynamic REST https://github.com/Huddle/dynamicrest
- Spring.NET Rest client http://www.springframework.net/rest/
- Microsoft WCF HttpClient http://wcf.codeplex.com/


CONTACT
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E-Mail: jw@elfisk.dk
Twitter: @JornWildt

Please add bug reports as issues on GitHub, thanks.


CREDITS
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Thanks to the OpenRasta (openrasta.org) and Restfulie (restfulie.caelum.com.br)
projects for inspiration.

Thanks to cBrain (www.cbrain.com) for investing hours in the project.

Thanks to these contributers:
  https://github.com/prearrangedchaos
  https://github.com/poizan42


LICENSE
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Ramone is distributed under the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
A copy of this license is included in the file LICENSE.TXT.