Get Categories

This section explains on how to get the category list using Dashboard Server API.

Description:

Get the category list from dashboard server.

URL:

/dashboardserverapi/get-dashboards

Method:

POST

Parameters:

The required parameters are,

• UserName
• PassWord
• ItemType

Code Snippet:

    public static ItemResponse GetDashboards()
        {
            var userName = "guest";
            var passWord = "demo";
            var itemRequest = new ItemRequest
            {
                UserName = userName,
                Password = passWord,
                ItemType = ItemType.Category
            };
           
            using (var proxy = new CustomWebClient())
            {
                var ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(ItemRequest));
                var mem = new MemoryStream();
                ser.WriteObject(mem, itemRequest);
                proxy.Headers["Content-type"] = "application/json";
                proxy.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
                var data = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(mem.ToArray(), 0, (int)mem.Length);

                var rdata = proxy.UploadString(new Uri(Code192ReportServerUrl + "/dashboardserverapi/get-dashboards"),
                    "POST", data);
                var response = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ItemResponse>(rdata);
                var result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<EntityData<ItemDetail>>(response.ResponseContent.ToString());

                return response;
            }
        }

Result:

The API response with the ResponseContent property holds the category list.