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NuGet Package Integration

For Visual Studio C++ projects on Windows, restcl is published on nuget.org.

WARNING

Not all dependencies of this package (notable, CTRE) have nuget packages.

We provide the restcl as a nuget to get started but we cannot provide a nuget for ctre-- Please consider using cmake/cpm integration!

Installation

Package Manager Console

Open the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio and execute:

Install-Package SiddiqSoft.restcl

Visual Studio Package Manager UI

  1. Right-click your project in Solution Explorer and select Manage NuGet Packages...
  2. Search for SiddiqSoft.restcl
  3. Click Install.

Visual Studio Project Setup

  1. Open project properties (Project -> Properties).
  2. Set C++ Language Standard to Preview - Features from the Latest C++ Working Draft (/std:c++latest) or ISO C++23 Standard (/std:C++23).
  3. Make sure nlohmann.json and required dependencies are restored automatically by NuGet.
#include "siddiqsoft/restcl.hpp"

using namespace siddiqsoft;
using namespace siddiqsoft::restcl_literals;

int main()
{
    WinHttpRESTClient wrc("MyWindowsApp/1.0");
    auto resp = wrc.send("https://httpbin.org/get"_GET);
    return 0;
}