Mastering Xamarin.Forms - Second Edition

Browsing and adding data

Now that we have created an API in Azure and set up a data table within the service, we can start making calls to the API and getting responses. Before we start making calls to the API from within the TripLog app, we can test the endpoint by making GET and POST HTTP requests to it using either a command line or a REST console.

There are several REST consoles to choose from if you don't already have one installed. I typically use a Google Chrome plugin named JaSON (https://github.com/shanebell/JaSON) or an app named Postman (http://www.getpostman.com).

If you don't want to use a REST console, you can use the command line to issue HTTP requests to the API. To do this, use either curl in the Terminal on macOS or Invoke-RestMethod ...