How to properly do JSON API GET requests and assign output (Kimai Time Tracking)
Posted By: Anonymous
I want to write a simple desktop application to track the overtime work of our employees. Whenever one of our employees needs to perform some tasks outside our normal working hours we want to track them using "Kimai Time Tracking".
The application I am programming needs to get the duration of all recorded tasks from Kimai, add them up and store them on a local SQL Server as an overtime contingent for the employee to claim later.
This is the GET request I’m mainly gonna use:
GET /api/timesheets (Returns a collection of timesheet records)
and this is an example output from the Kimai Demo (Sorry for length)
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"Adrien Union"
],
"id": 80,
"begin": "2021-01-04T15:08:00-0800",
"end": "2021-01-04T19:54:00-0800",
"duration": 17160,
"description": null,
"rate": 386.1,
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]
I’m ONLY interested in the duration values. I need to add them all together and store them as an integer variable (Write to SQL DB).
So my question is: What’s the best-practise way of doing this? I’ve tried Process.Start() and redirecting the StandardOutput to a string variable. This technically works but would be a pain to seperate all the "duration values" etc.
Is there any better way to do this?
Thanks in advance!
In case you wanna test it yourself:
Kimai Live Demo: https://demo.kimai.org
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Kimai API: https://demo.kimai.org/api/doc (after login)
Solution
You could use the HttpClient API to issue a REST request and then parse the response directly in your .NET app:
HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-AUTH-USER", "susan_super");
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-AUTH-TOKEN", "api_kitten");
string json = await httpClient.GetStringAsync("https://demo.kimai.org/api/timesheets?user=1");
There is no need to start another process to do this.
Answered By: Anonymous
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