System.Uri extension methods

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Flurl makes it fairly painless to interoperate with more "native" representations of URLs like System.Uri and String. For example, Flurl.Url has a constructor that takes a string and another that takes a System.Uri, and its ToString and ToUri methods seamlessly convert back. But with strings it takes things a step farther and provides a full set of string extension method that mirror those on Url so you can even skip the tedious step of creating a Url object explicitly.

Lots of .NET libraries (especially those from Microsoft) tend to standardize on System.Uri. So it seems it would be equally useful (or more so) to have all those string extension methods available on System.Uri as well.

For example, if you're working with a library that speaks System.Uri but you'd like to use Flurl's builder methods to modify one, you can do that pretty directly:

uri = uri
    .AppendPathSegment("foo") // a Flurl.Url was created, minus the noise 
    .SetQueryParams(new { x = 1, y = 2 })
    .ToUri(); // convert back

Not to be left out, Flurl.Http will also get new System.Uri extensions to mirror its string extensions:

var thing = await uri.GetJsonAsync<T>();