In accessing REST service you often transfer data from client to the REST service or the other way around. The common way to do it is to serialize the data into JSON format or XML format which already handled by Crosslight RestClient. However the serialization process is more dynamic based on application's requirements, there are many ways to handle serialization and the possibility to have new format in the future. To handle these scenarios, Crosslight RestClient allows you can create your own Serializer and Deserializer that comply with the target REST service.

For deserialization, Crosslight RestClient will create the object based on the specified type, read the specified input string, and attempt to merge all property values available in the input string to the actual object. Properties not available in the actual object will be ignored.

string baseUrl = "http://localhost:27040/api/";
 
// create the Rest Client
IRestClient client = new RestClient(baseUrl);
 
// create and execute RestRequest to access GET api/values.
IRestRequest request = new RestRequest("values", HttpMethod.GET);
IRestResponse response = await client.ExecuteAsync<complexdata>(request);

Notice that the ExecuteAsync method has the target deserialization type.

IRestResponse response = await client.ExecuteAsync<complexdata>(request);

It will deserialize the HTTP response content to ComplexData object and you can get the deserialized object from the response.Data property.

For more detail information, please check the Crosslight documentation on Understanding REST Client Data Serialization Process topic.

WebAPI-enabled Inventory Tracker sample (Link to Git: http://git.intersoftpt.com/projects/CROS/repos/samples/browse/MyInventory_WebApi.) is recommended for you. One of its features highlight is: Efficient use of the RestClient Class and QueryDescriptor Class to demonstrate web data retrieval.

Hope this helps.