OpenSim-Test/OpenSim/Framework/Servers/HttpServer/RestObjectPoster.cs

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using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace OpenSim.Framework.Servers.HttpServer
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Makes an asynchronous REST request which doesn't require us to do anything with the response.
    /// </summary>
    public class RestObjectPoster
    {
        public static void BeginPostObject<TRequest>(string requestUrl, TRequest obj)
        {
            BeginPostObject("POST", requestUrl, obj);
        }

        public static void BeginPostObject<TRequest>(string verb, string requestUrl, TRequest obj)
        {
            Type type = typeof (TRequest);

            WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl);
            request.Method = verb;
            request.ContentType = "text/xml";

            using (MemoryStream buffer = new MemoryStream())
            {
                XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
                settings.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;

                using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(buffer, settings))
                {
                    XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(type);
                    serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);
                    writer.Flush();
                }

                int length = (int)buffer.Length;
                request.ContentLength = length;

                using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
                    requestStream.Write(buffer.ToArray(), 0, length);
            }

            // IAsyncResult result = request.BeginGetResponse(AsyncCallback, request);
            request.BeginGetResponse(AsyncCallback, request);
        }

        private static void AsyncCallback(IAsyncResult result)
        {
            WebRequest request = (WebRequest) result.AsyncState;
            using (WebResponse resp = request.EndGetResponse(result))
            {
            }
        }
    }
}