HttpClient

Polly, HttpClientFactory and the Policy Registry in a console application

Full source code available here. Want to learn more about Polly? Check out my Pluralsight course on it. How to use the HttpClientFactory with a console application is not immediately obvious.

Jul 26, 2018 # AspNet, HttpClient, HttpClientFactory, Polly, Polly Registry

Using the HttpClientInterception to Test Methods That Use a HttpClient

Full source code available here. In my previous post I showed a way of testing a controller that uses a HttpClient. I had to mock the HttpMessageHandler pass that to the HttpClient and set a bunch of properties.

Jan 13, 2018 # HttpClient, Testing, Unit Test, WebApi, WebApi2

Unit Testing a Method That Uses HttpClient

Full source code available here. In this post I’m going to show you how to test an action method of controller that uses a HttpClient. When performing this test you want to isolate just the code of the action method for testing, you want to remove the dependency on the HttpClient.

Dec 19, 2017 # Dependency Injection, HttpClient, HttpMessageHandler, Unit Test

Reusing HttpClient with Dependency Injection

Full source code available here. If you are using HttpClient to make requests for you, you might have come across some articles discussing how to reuse HttpClient. They strongly advocate for using a single HttpClient for as many requests as possible, i.

Oct 28, 2017 # dotNet Core 2, AspNet, Dependency Injection, HttpClient, WebApi