How to consume an external API
.NET provides a way to interact with external APIs and services by abstracting the need to construct our own HTTP requests, handle the underlying networking details, send the request, and receive the response while performing serialization and deserialization and handling communication issues.
So, in order to interact with these external APIs and services, .NET provides us with the HttpClient class. However, the proper way to deal with this class is through the IHttpClientFactory interface. This allows us to create and manage HttpClient instances for optimal performance and resource management.
Benefits of using IHttpClientFactory
Using IHttpClientFactory provides several advantages:
- Connection management: It manages the lifetime of
HttpMessageHandlerinstances, which helps prevent issues such as socket exhaustion - Connection reuse: It reuses underlying HTTP connections, improving performance
- Resilience: It adds resilience to transient...
