RestSharp common issues

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RestSharp is a popular rest client in .net

Below are common issues I’d met during development.

  1. Serialize/Deserialize wrong DateTime data

There was an issue here

Issue: submit data contains DateTime then get wrong data at api.

Submit:

{
    "DateOfBirth": "1992-04-16T00:00:00"
}

Receive:

DateOfBirth.ToString("yyyy/MM/dd hh:mm:ss"); // = "1992/04/15 05:00:00"

Reason:

var request = new RestRequest(...);
request.AddJsonBody(data);

Fix:

req.AddParameter("application/json; charset=utf-8", JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data), ParameterType.RequestBody);

Here I use Newtonsoft.Json to serialize the data