Facilitate HTTP Requests Using Refit in .Net Core

What is Refit?

Refit is a type-safe REST client for .NET. Its a type safe wrapper to interacting with Apis. It internally take care for serialization and deserialization. Refit automatically generate code based on defined interface.

SDK Requirements

Refit 6 requires Visual Studio 16.8 or higher, or the .NET SDK 5.0.100 or higher. It can target any .NET Standard 2.0 platform.

Refit 6 does not support the old packages.config format for NuGet references (as they do not support analyzers/source generators). You must migrate to PackageReference to use Refit v6 and later.

Get Started to consume Refit:

• Install refit supported packages into the project.

• Define a model which is identical to the api response.

• Define an interface to define api routes.

• Register refit client into program.cs

• Inject ITodoApi into the controller using dependency injection (DI).

• That sit good news we already implemented the refit into our project. Lets test the endpoints.