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NOTE: GoGrid Support WILL NOT troubleshoot customer-modified code. The code snippets and examples provided in this API documentation can be modified to customize your own code, but GoGrid Support cannot troubleshoot any errors you may receive due to missing syntax or illegal arguments. We WILL support our API interface and can troubleshoot any API server-side errors you may be receiving. Please note that all of the code snippets and examples provided in this API documentation have been thoroughly tested and verified as properly working.

GoGridExample.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Security;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Web;

namespace GoGrid
{
  // This local class is required for the HTTPS calls to work
  class MyCertificatePolicy : ICertificatePolicy
  {
    public bool CheckValidationResult(ServicePoint srvp, X509Certificate cert, WebRequest req, int problem)
    {
      return true;
    }
  }

  class GoGridClient
  {
    string server = "https://api.gogrid.com/api";
    string api_key = "YOUR API KEY";
    string secret = "YOUR SHARED SECRET";

    // Construct a GoGrid API Request based on the method and params arguments
    public string getAPIRequestURL(string _method, System.Collections.Hashtable _params)
    {
      // Start constructing the request URL, starting with the server and method
      string url = server + "/" + _method + "?api_key=" + api_key + "&v=1.0" + "&sig=" + getSignature(api_key, secret);
      
      // Append the params to the request URL, encoding the values
      if (_params != null)
      {
          foreach (System.Collections.DictionaryEntry d in _params)
          {                    
              url += "&" + d.Key + "=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(d.Value.ToString());
          }
      }
      return url;
    }

    // Generate the request signature
    public string getSignature(string _api_key, string _secret)
    {
        int epoch = (int)(DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalSeconds;
        return MD5(_api_key + _secret + epoch);
    }

    // Send an API request
    public string sendAPIRequest(string url)
    {
      // used to build entire input
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

      // used on each read operation
      byte[] buf = new byte[8192];

      // prepare the web page we will be asking for

      HttpWebRequest request = null;
      HttpWebResponse response = null;
      try
      {
        ServicePointManager.CertificatePolicy = (ICertificatePolicy)new MyCertificatePolicy();
        request = (HttpWebRequest)
            WebRequest.Create(url);

        // execute the request
        response = (HttpWebResponse)
               request.GetResponse();

        // we will read data via the response stream
        Stream resStream = response.GetResponseStream();

        string tempString = null;
        int count = 0;

        do
        {
          // fill the buffer with data
          count = resStream.Read(buf, 0, buf.Length);

          // make sure we read some data
          if (count != 0)
          {
            // translate from bytes to ASCII text
            tempString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buf, 0, count);

            // continue building the string
            sb.Append(tempString);
          }
        }
        while (count > 0); // any more data to read?
      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
        sb.AppendLine(e.Message);
      }

      // return the string
      return sb.ToString();

    }

    // Code to generate a PHP-like MD5 hash
    public string MD5(string input)
    {
      System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider x = new System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider();
      byte[] bs = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input);
      bs = x.ComputeHash(bs);
      System.Text.StringBuilder s = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
      foreach (byte b in bs)
      {
        s.Append(b.ToString("x2").ToLower());
      }
      string password = s.ToString();
      return password;
    }
  }

  class GoGridExample
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      // Instantiate a GoGridClient object
      GoGridClient grid = new GoGridClient();

      // List the servers in the grid
      string apiurl = grid.getAPIRequestURL("grid/server/list", null);
      Console.WriteLine(apiurl);
      Console.WriteLine(grid.sendAPIRequest(apiurl));

      // Get particular server info

      System.Collections.Hashtable parameters = new System.Collections.Hashtable();
      parameters.Add("name", "Test Server");
      parameters.Add("format", "json");

      apiurl = grid.getAPIRequestURL("grid/server/get", parameters);
      Console.WriteLine(apiurl);
      Console.WriteLine(grid.sendAPIRequest(apiurl));

      Console.Read();
    }
  }
}

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