Before 3.3.1 if you wanted to control serialization you would have to decorate your model with attributes, for example if your REST API used snake case naming convention:

public class User
{
  [JsonProperty("phone_number")]
  public string PhoneNumber { get; set; }
}

As of 3.3.1 you can provide JsonSerializerSettings to the config – this saves you having to add the attributes to properties individually, which will make your code cleaner. For example if your REST API used snake case naming convention:

// When directly creating a RestClient instance
dynamic restClient = new RestClient("https://dalsoft.co.uk", new Config()
	.SetJsonSerializerSettings(new JsonSerializerSettings { ContractResolver =  new DefaultContractResolver { NamingStrategy = new SnakeCaseNamingStrategy() } }));

// When using IHttpClientFactory
 services
	.AddRestClient(Name, "https://dalsoft.co.uk")
	.SetJsonSerializerSettings(new JsonSerializerSettings { ContractResolver =  new DefaultContractResolver { NamingStrategy = new SnakeCaseNamingStrategy() } });

Now the SnakeCaseNamingStrategy ContractResolver is used by default when deserializing responses from your REST API.

To find out more about DalSoft.RestClient including the new JsonSerializerSettings head over to https://restclient.dalsoft.io

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Prior to .NET Core 2.1 anyone who has tried to use HttpClient at scale (maybe from a microservice) may have run into the dreaded socket exhaustion issue.

Socket exhaustion happens because HttpClient is designed to be instantiated once and re-used throughout the life of an application, if you make HTTP calls in a server application for every request you will run out of sockets (because sockets get left in TIME_WAIT state for 240 seconds by default).

Using IHttpClientFactory can improve performance by 43%!

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Earlier this year I posted about a pet project I’ve been working on DalSoft.RestClient which is a dynamic C# rest client.

I’ve now used it on a number of projects, and it works really for fluently accessing rest api’s (if I do say so myself). So I thought I’d do a quick post on a real life scenario. For a client of mine I’ve recently needed to integrate PushWoosh, so I thought I’d share some code to show how easy it would be to create a PushWoosh SDK with DalSoft.RestClient.

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