Introduction

Let’s discuss the following Rest Sharp components and features that make it so popular in the modern testing and development world. This powerful library provides you with a large set of functionalities.

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Main RestSharp Features

I will list a few the most important and commonly used amongst them. They are the following:

1. First, HTTP requests can be sent with the help of this library. Basic interface for this operation is called as I Rest Request in Rest Sharp. It provides you with a great number of request configurations available. Just a few of them are query parameters, path parameters, request body, headers, authorization, cookies, etc.
2. Second, HTTP responses can be represented as C# objects defined in Rest Sharp. The basic interface that stores web services response is called as I Rest Response. A lot of useful data such as response cookies, content type, body, and status code are stored inside this object.
3. Third, HTTP Rest Client is defined with the help of I Rest Client interface inside this library. It is responsible for transition of IRestRequest object as a REST Request to a web service, and retrieval of the response from this service as an instance of I Rest Response. Here, you can also set the base URL for all outgoing requests.
4. Finally, JSON Schema validation is an integral part of this library. It allows you to work with JSON Schemas and check the correctness of response body structure and content with the help of a few JSON files stored somewhere in your project. Moreover, this functionality provides you with a chance to see a pretty error messages with information about what is wrong with your response’s body.