Help using JSON API that requires Authentication with JWT token

[JimAvanti]

SS:
I don’t know how you could have written all that code without even having a valid APIkey to test it out!

I already spent half the day trying to figure out how to Deserialize the JSON response into an Array of SearchSeriesResult with no luck. I made a new copy of your SearchSeriesName function that returns a JSON string instead of a Deserialized object so that I could see what was going on.

    Public Function SearchSeriesByName(ByVal jwt As String, ByVal searchTerm As String) As String 
        Dim restClient As New RestClient()
        Dim url As String = "https://api.thetvdb.com/search/series"
        Dim parameters As New Dictionary(Of String, String)()
        parameters.Add("name", searchTerm)
        Dim responseJson As String = restClient.GetWithJwt(url, jwt, parameters)
        Return responseJson
    End Function

I then try calling with the following code to display the JSON string followed by my attempt to load an array of the Deserialized string and display an item. I am having no luck.

       Dim searchResults As String = tvDbApi.SearchSeriesName(jwt, TextBox2.Text)
        TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & vbCrLf & searchResults

        Dim responseObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of List(Of SearchSeriesResult))(searchResults)
        TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text & vbCrLf & responseObject(1).id

If I wanted to convert the JSON to XML how would I go about that? Would I convert the JSON response string or the Deserialized array (Once I have a valid array).

Jim

Look at you, you're catching my errors. Fast learner!

I'm not sure how to search for a partial show name. I'd sort of expect that by default, but the documentation didn't make that clear. Maybe they've got a wildcard format? I hope there's an answer to that.

Also:

This is spot on and I missed it from the documentation:


I was looking for [] around the "model" if it was an array. Whoops!

I forgot to mention it, but 90% of "writing a client" for one of these is being almost right and hacking out all the little wrinkles