A small c# wrapper for BeGlobal API requests

BeGlobal

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;

public enum HttpVerb
{
    GET,
    POST,
    PUT,
    DELETE
}

public class BeGlobalClient {
  public string Token { get; set; }
  private readonly string ContentType = "application/json";

  public BeGlobalClient(string token) {
    Token = token;       //your BeGlobal API key instead of `BeGlobalAPIKey`
  }
  
  public string MakeRequest(string endpoint, HttpVerb method, string data) {
    var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(endpoint);
  
    request.Method = method.ToString();
    request.ContentLength = 0;
    request.ContentType = ContentType;
    request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "BeGlobal apiKey=" + Token);

    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data) && method == HttpVerb.POST) {
      var encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
      var bytes = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1").GetBytes(data);
      request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
  
      using (var writeStream = request.GetRequestStream()) {
        writeStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
      }
    }
  
    using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) {
      var responseValue = string.Empty;
  
      if (response.StatusCode != HttpStatusCode.OK) {
        var message = String.Format("Request failed. Received HTTP {0}", response.StatusCode);
        throw new ApplicationException(message);
      }
  
      // grab the response
      using (var responseStream = response.GetResponseStream()) {
        if (responseStream != null) {
          using (var reader = new StreamReader(responseStream)) {
            responseValue = reader.ReadToEnd();
          }
        }
      }
  
      return responseValue;
    }
  }  
}

Example

//Example of asking for a translation from the BeGlobal API
//see: https://www.beglobal.com/developers/api-documentation/ for more info

//define the endpoint
string endPoint = @"https://api.beglobal.com/translate";

//create a new client and set your BeGlobal API key
var client = new BeGlobalClient(token: "BeGlobalAPIKey");

//make a request
var json = client.MakeRequest(endpoint: endPoint, 
                            method: HttpVerb.POST, 
                            data: "{'text': 'text to be translated', 'from': 'eng', to: 'fra'}");