Form property aliasing

[bennor]

Since there are dumb APIs out there with cryptic parameter names (looking at you Google Measurement Protocol), I've added support for the [AliasAs("xyz")] attribute to the serialization of object properties for use in form posts.

So now instead of:

public interface IMeasurementProtocolApi
{
    [Post("/collect")]
    Task Collect([Body(BodySerializationMethod.UrlEncoded)] Measurement measurement);
}

public class Measurement
{
    public string t { get; set; } // This isn't even the worst of them
}

await api.Collect(new Measurement { t = "what even is t?" });

you can do this:

// This part doesn't change
public interface IMeasurementProtocolApi
{
    [Post("/collect")]
    Task Collect([Body(BodySerializationMethod.UrlEncoded)] Measurement measurement);
}

// This stuff does
public Measurement
{
    [AliasAs("t")] 
    public string Type { get; set; }
}

await api.Collect(new Measurement { Type = "event" });

A few things to note:

• I reused AliasAsAttribute instead of creating a new attribute (e.g. FormAliasAttribute, FormFieldAttribute, etc). This could maybe get a little confusing for consumers since it won't actually do anything if it's used with JSON serialization. Json.NET already has JsonPropertyAttribute for that though. If you'd prefer I create a new attribute to avoid any confusion, I'm happy to.
• The .NET 4.5 test project was busted, so I had to fix that. I'm not sure if what I did is what you intended - I just did what I needed to to get the test project running. I haven't fixed any of the other test projects.
• I don't have a Xamarin license, so I haven't been able to check the Xamarin solution. 👿

[anaisbetts]

This looks great! Can you document this in the README too?

[bennor]

Yeah man. Was just waiting to make sure it was all good before I wrote any
docs. :) We didn't update them when I added form support. Oops.

Saw you used the form post stuff for the slack api in your evolve talk,
which made me 😸. It's very cool seeing the guy who wrote a
library using the little bit I wrote for it. How cool is open source!
On 11/10/2014 3:00 pm, "Paul Betts" notifications@github.com wrote:

This looks great! Can you document this in the README too?

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[anaisbetts]

@bennor Totally! :) Once we get iOS 64-bit working, this library will really take off

[anaisbetts]

Merged! Thanks @bennor!