Three way to form URI for REST Services

Objective

In this article, I will show how we could construct URI in three ways.

Method # 1: Creating URI from string

I am passing string in constructor of URI class, to create new URI.

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Method #2 New URI from Component Instance

I am here taking host and path individually and then combining them in constructor of Uri class.

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Method #3 Creating URI using Try Pattern validation

In this , I am showing you how could we use Try Pattern method of URI class to construct an URI.

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The full source code for your reference is given below

Program.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Net;

namespace ConsoleApplication5

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

#region Creating URI from string

string url = “http://dhananjaykumar.net/feed/”;

Uri uri = new Uri(url);

Console.WriteLine(uri.AbsoluteUri);

Console.Read();

#endregion

#region Creating URI from Component Instance

string host = “http://dhananjaykumar.net”;

string path = “/feed”;

Uri uri1 = new Uri(host);

uri1 = new Uri(uri1, path);

Console.WriteLine(uri1.AbsoluteUri);

Console.Read();

#endregion

#region Create New URI Try Pattern Validation

string url = “http://dhananjaykumar.net/feed/”;

Uri uri2;

if(Uri.TryCreate(url,UriKind.Absolute , out uri2))

{

Console.WriteLine(uri2);

}

Console.Read();

#endregion

Console.Read();

}

}

}